Girding for Battle
Subtitle: The Arms Trade in a Global Perspective, 1815-1940
Contributors: Donald J. Stoker (Editor); Jonathan A. Grant (Editor)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: August 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780275973391
Subjects: Arms trade; History of specific subjects; International trade; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Business / Economics / Finance; Military; ASIA; Africa; Europe; The Americas; International - General; Military - General; World - General; History / Military / General; Arms transfers; Defense industries; History
First sentence: When Egyptian officials proudly displayed their first battalion of locally assembled M1 Abrams tanks in December 1994, they reaffirmed a long tradition of importing military hardware.