TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grant,Jonathan A.
TI  - Between depression and disarmament:  the international armaments business, 1919-1939
SN  - 9781108448505
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - gnd
KW  - Škoda (Plzeň)
KW  - Creusot-Loire SA
KW  - Rüstungsexport
KW  - Wirtschaft
KW  - Abrüstung
KW  - Rüstung
KW  - Waffenhandel
KW  - Osteuropa
KW  - Frankreich
KW  - Tschechoslowakei
KW  - Wirtschaftsgeschichte
KW  - Vickers
N1  - Introduction; 1. The Schneider-Skoda Alliance, 1919-1930; 2. Disarmament by default, the British Arms business in Eastern Europe, 1921-1930; 3. The Skoda scandal in Romania, 1930-1934; 4. Limited modernizations and surreptitious re-armaments: the aircraft business in Eastern Europe, 1920-1930; 5. Soviet re-armament, Great Depression, and general disarmament, 1930-1933; 6. Czechs and balances, re-armament and the Switch from peace to war, 1934-41; Conclusion
N2  - This business history analyzes the connections between private business, disarmament, and re-armament as they affected arms procurement and military technology transfers in Eastern Europe from 1919 to 1939. Rather than focusing on the negotiations or the political problems involved with the Disarmament Conferences, this study concerns itself with the business effects of the disarmament discussions. Accordingly, Schneider-Creusot, Skoda, Vickers, and their respective business activities in Eastern European markets serve as the chief subjects for this book, and the core primary sources relied upon include their unpublished corporate archival documents. Shifting the scope of analysis to consider the business dimension allows for a fresh appraisal of the linkages between the arms trade, disarmament, and re-armament. The business approach also explodes the myth of the 'merchants of death' from the inside. It concludes by tracing the armaments business between 1939 and 1941 as it transitioned from peacetime to war
ER  -