Torpedo : : Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain /

Torpedo : : Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain / / Katherine C. Epstein.

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When President Eisenhower referred to the "military-industrial complex" in his 1961 Farewell Address, he summed up in a phrase the merger of government and industry that dominated the Cold War United States. In this bold reappraisal, Katherine Epstein uncovers the origins of the military-i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014
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Epstein, Katherine C.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (321 p.) :; 11 halftones, 1 graph
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • 1 America's Weapons of the Weak
  • 2 Britain's Weapons of the Strong
  • 3 The US Navy and the Emergence of Command Technology
  • 4 The Royal Navy and the Quest for Reach
  • 5 Command Technology on Trial in the United States
  • 6 A Very Bad Gap in Britain
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Archival Sources
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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