ISBN10: 0754634043, ISBN13: 9780754634041, [publisher: Ashgate, Aldershot] Hardcover Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004. Pictorial hard cover. Book Condition : Very good, like new, appears unread. A very nice unmarked copy. Minor damage to base of spine does not detract to the condition of the book internally. Scarce Book . Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #A017487.
[Cramlington, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2004]

Hardback. New. Arms and the State is a history of Britain's first and foremost modern armaments company, the Armstrong Whitworth Company, from its origins in 1854 to 1914. It focuses on the role of Sir William G. Armstrong, an engineer and entrepreneur who transformed his modest mechanical engineering business into a vast industrial enterprise which invented, developed, manufactured and sold heavy guns and warships throughout the world. Arms and the State reconstructs the global arms trade as it follows Armstrong's companies selling the latest weapons to both sides in the American Civil War, Egypt, Turkey and Italy in the 1860s, to China, Chile and Japan in the 1870s and 1880s, and became Britain's leading armaments company in the age of the naval arms races that preceded the First World War. In so doing, it discusses varied topics such as the social and political nature of technological innovation, the quality of Britain's late-Victorian entrepreneurs, and the impact of armaments on British politics, defence policies, the international arms trade and imperialism. Arms and the State situates the history of the company in its technological, political and international contexts, with particular attention given to the role of British Parliamentary politics and the inner workings of the War Office and Admiralty bureaucracies. The central narrative is Armstrong's role in the militarization of technology in the 1850s, the commercialization of the ...

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Arms and the State: Sir William Armstrong and the Remaking of British Naval Power, 1854-1914. ISBN 0754634043 9780754634041 [GB]