Warfare State · Britain, 1920–1970 by Edgerton, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half-title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Figures Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1 The military-industrial complex in the interwar years

A new look at interwar armaments The strength of the British fleet The naval-industrial complex The aircraft and tank industries The export of armaments Reflections on political economy and appeasement Conclusion

2 The warfare state and the nationalisation of Britain, 1939–55

Economic historians and war economies: the disappearing war economy Military expenditure and the development of the British state Controlling the war economy The new arms industry Labour and public ownership of the arms industry Industrial policy State-industry relations after the war Defence production National technological security

3 The expert state: the military-scientific complex in the interwar years

Experts in the state service Specialists, experts and professionals Technical experts and the armed services R&D in the forces The academic elite and the military-scientific complex Running warlike R&D The civil service research scientists and engineers The status of scientists and technicians in the interwar civil service Researchers versus administrators The results of state R&D

4 The new men and the new state, 1939–70

New ministers Serving officers, businessmen and the supply departments Running R&D Academic science What happened to the wartime technocrats? The new class, the warfare state and the university Two civil service corps: researchers and administrators The non-war between administrators and scientific officers

5 Anti-historians and technocrats: revisiting the technocratic moment, 1959–64

C.P. Snow, anti-historian P.M.S. Blackett, the state and the left Blackett, Labour and science policy The politics of technocratic modernisation revisited

6 The warfare state and the ‘white heat’, 1955–70

Introduction Technological futurism and the British military-industrial complex, 1955–64 Dependence in high technology The reassessment of national technology Labour in office The machinery of the white heat Mintech’s policy for technology Running down the research corps The defence origins of industrial policy What then was the ‘white heat’? Whatever happened to the arms industry?

7 The disappearance of the British warfare state

Britain is not Germany I: celebrating liberal England Britain is not Germany II: the militaristic critique of Britain Socialism, Labour and war: the rise of the welfare state British socialism and the revival of political economy The return of technocratic anti-histories

8 Rethinking the relations of science, technology, industry and war

Histories of technology and war Intellectuals, science, technology, industry and war Modulations Science, war and British society The US military-scientific complex Putting the military in Anti-histories and historiography from below

Appendices

Appendix 1

Air Ministry

RAE Other Air Ministry NPL Aerodynamics only

ADMIRALTY War Office

Appendix 2

Air Ministry/MAP MOS The Admiralty Bomb Project 1940

Appendix 3 Appendix 4 Appendix 5

Cranks and other unorthodox inventors in the Second World War

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