Arms Limitation and Disarmament: Restraints on War, 1899-1939

Author:   B.J.C. Mckercher
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:  

9780275940591


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   26 October 1992
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Format:   Hardback
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Arms Limitation and Disarmament: Restraints on War, 1899-1939


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This collection examines various aspects of the efforts made to limit warfare through arms limitation and disarmament agreements in the period from the first Hague conference to the outbreak of World War II in Europe. The issue for each contributor is not necessarily to show whether individual endeavors, separate conferences, and the rest were successful or unsuccessful--though this is an important consideration. Rather, each chapter tends to offer differing points of view on accomplishments and failures because, as is so often the experience in historical study, the record is mixed; and this situation is certainly no less characteristic of arms limitation and disarmament between 1899 and 1939. Written by experts on disarmament issues, these chapters put into historical perspective how and why the effort, to restrain war were undertaken at the Hague conferences, the Washington conference, and among antiwar groups. Each contributor approaches this task using the method he or she deems most appropriate. Some employ an historiographical approach; others undertake to produce analyses based heavily on archival holdings in order to offer new interpretations of the past or revise existing ones. This book will be of interest to students and teachers alike of modern history and political science.

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Author:   B.J.C. Mckercher
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.595kg
ISBN:  

9780275940591


ISBN 10:   0275940594
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   26 October 1992
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Restraints on War, 1899-1939 by B.J.C. McKercher The British Government, the Hague Peace Conference of 1907, and the Armaments Question by Andre T. Sidorowicz ""The British Empire Floats on the British Navy"": British Naval Policy, Belligerent Rights, and Disarmament, 1902-1909 by Keith Neilson Abolishing War?: Military Disarmament at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 by Lorna S. Jaffe A Matter of Controversy: The Peace Movement and British Arms Policy in the Interwar Period by Cecelia Lynch Look Back in Anger: The Western Powers and the Washington Conference of 1921-1922 by Malcolm H. Murfett The Coolidge Conference of 1927: Disarmament in Disarray by Richard W. Fanning The Historians and the Geneva Naval Conference by Marc Epstein The 1930 London Naval Conference and Anglo-American Maritime Strength, 1927-1930 by Gregory C. Kennedy Of Horns and Teeth: the Preparatory Commission and the World Disarmament Conference, 1926-1934 by B.J.C. McKercher Protecting National Interests by Treaty: The Second London Naval Conference, 1934-1935 by Meredith S. Berg Bibliography"

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B.J.C. McKERCHER is an Associate Professor at the Royal Military College of Canada. An international and diplomatic historian on Anglo-American relations, he is the author/editor of five books, including (with E.J. Errington) The Vietnam War as History (Praeger, 1990) and (with K.E. Neilson) Go Spy the Land: Military Intelligence in History (Praeger, 1992).

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