Warfare State: Britain, 1920-1970

This impressively researched and controversial book presents an alternative account of the development of one of the greatest states of the twentieth-century. It represents the culmination of David Edgerton's long-standing research on the relationship between science, technology, the military and the British state. Edgerton seeks to put the warfare state back into the history of twentieth-century Britain by restoring militarism, science and technology to that history and by challenging conventional accounts that centre on the notion of the welfare state and the narrative of British decline.

Author: David Edgerton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/16/2006
Pages: 382
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780521672313

About the Author
Edgerton, David: - David Edgerton is Hans Rausing Professor at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the Imperial College London. His previous publications include England and the Aeroplane: an Essay on a Militant and Technological Nation (1991) and Science, Technology and the British industrial 'Decline', 1870-1970 (1996).