The Economic Effects of the Two World Wars on Britain
Author : Alan S. Milward
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 1970-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Alan S. Milward
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 1970-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Stephen Broadberry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1139448358
This unique volume offers a definitive new history of European economies at war from 1914 to 1918. It studies how European economies mobilised for war, how existing economic institutions stood up under the strain, how economic development influenced outcomes and how wartime experience influenced post-war economic growth. Leading international experts provide the first systematic comparison of economies at war between 1914 and 1918 based on the best available data for Britain, Germany, France, Russia, the USA, Italy, Turkey, Austria-Hungary and the Netherlands. The editors' overview draws some stark lessons about the role of economic development, the importance of markets and the damage done by nationalism and protectionism. A companion volume to the acclaimed The Economics of World War II, this is a major contribution to our understanding of total war.
Author : Mark Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 29,35 MB
Release : 2000-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521785037
This book provides a new quantitative view of the wartime economic experiences of six great powers; the UK, the USA, Germany, Italy, Japan and the USSR. What contribution did economics made to war preparedness and to winning or losing the war? What was the effect of wartime experiences on postwar fortunes, and did those who won the war lose the peace? A chapter is devoted to each country, reviewing its economic war potential, military-economic policies and performance, war expenditures and development, while the introductory chapter presents a comparative overview. The result of an international collaborative project, the volume aims to provide a text of statistical reference for students and researchers interested in international and comparative economic history, the history of World War II, the history of economic policy, and comparative economic systems. It embodies the latest in economic analysis and historical research.
Author : Mark Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1317318048
In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.
Author : Chima J. Korieh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1108425801
A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.
Author : Alan S. Milward
Publisher : Springer
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 1970-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349007315
Author : John Maynard Keynes
Publisher : Simon Publications LLC
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781931541138
John Maynard Keynes, then a rising young economist, participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as chief representative of the British Treasury and advisor to Prime Minister David Lloyd George. He resigned after desperately trying and failing to reduce the huge demands for reparations being made on Germany. The Economic Consequences of the Peace is Keynes' brilliant and prophetic analysis of the effects that the peace treaty would have both on Germany and, even more fatefully, the world.
Author : Margaret R. Higonnet
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,31 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300044294
Essays analyze the two world wars in respect to gender politics and reassesses the differences between men and women in relation to war
Author : Nicholas A. Lambert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674063066
Before the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany-economic warfare on an unprecedented scale.This secret strategy called for the state to exploit Britain's effective monopolies in banking, communications, and shipping-the essential infrastructure underpinning global trade-to create a controlled implosion of the world economic system. In this revisionist account, Nicholas Lambert shows in lively detail how naval planners persuaded the British political leadership that systematic disruption of the global economy could bring about German military paralysis. After the outbreak of hostilities, the government shied away from full implementation upon realizing the extent of likely collateral damage-political, social, economic, and diplomatic-to both Britain and neutral countries. Woodrow Wilson in particular bristled at British restrictions on trade. A new, less disruptive approach to economic coercion was hastily improvised. The result was the blockade, ostensibly intended to starve Germany. It proved largely ineffective because of the massive political influence of economic interests on national ambitions and the continued interdependencies of all countries upon the smooth functioning of the global trading system. Lambert's interpretation entirely overturns the conventional understanding of British strategy in the early part of the First World War and underscores the importance in any analysis of strategic policy of understanding Clausewitz's "political conditions of war."
Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 078672529X
From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I The Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims, thereby transforming a Continental conflict into a world war, which it then badly mishandled, necessitating American involvement. The war was not inevitable, Ferguson argues, but rather was the result of the mistaken decisions of individuals who would later claim to have been in the grip of huge impersonal forces. That the war was wicked, horrific, and inhuman is memorialized in part by the poetry of men like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, but also by cold statistics. Indeed, more British soldiers were killed in the first day of the Battle of the Somme than Americans in the Vietnam War. And yet, as Ferguson writes, while the war itself was a disastrous folly, the great majority of men who fought it did so with little reluctance and with some enthusiasm. For anyone wanting to understand why wars are fought, why men are willing to fight them and why the world is as it is today, there is no sharper or more stimulating guide than Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War.