Arming the Western Front : war business and the state in Britain, 1900-1920
- Submitting institution
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Sheffield Hallam University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 3738
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780754666134
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 432-page study details the challenges confronted by Britain as it mobilised economic and human resources to meet the challenge of 'industrial' war. Drawing on painstaking research in government records and the archives of munitions manufacturers, it demonstrates how Britain shifted from a naval and imperial vision of defence and security before WW1 towards one that reflected the brutal realities of the Western Front. Successive chapters explore the challenges of industrial war, which necessarily entailed fundamental changes in relationships between the state, business, labour and the military. It argues that negotiating these challenges was critical in determining the war's outcome.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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