1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001784469707536

Titolo

The reform of the international financial architecture / editor, Rosa  M. Lastra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; Boston : Kluwer Law International, c2001

ISBN

9041198024

Descrizione fisica

xxvi, 370 p. ; 25 cm

Collana

International banking, finance, and economic law ; v. 18

Altri autori (Persone)

Lastra, Rosa MarĂ¢ia

Disciplina

346/.08215

Soggetti

Banche - Legislazione - Congressi

Istituzioni finanziarie internazionali

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Relazioni presentate alla conferenza di Londra del maggio 1999

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliografia (p. 337-363) e indice



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782517203321

Autore

Peden G. C.

Titolo

Arms, economics and British strategy : from Dreadnoughts to hydrogen bombs / / G.C. Peden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-107-17076-1

1-280-95945-2

9786610959457

0-511-29630-4

1-139-13233-4

0-511-29553-7

0-511-49618-4

0-511-29394-1

0-511-29474-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 384 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge military histories

Disciplina

355.033041

Soggetti

Great Britain Military policy

Great Britain History, Military

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-366) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The dreadnought era, 1904-1914 -- The first world war -- Retrenchment and rearmament, 1919-1939 -- The second world war -- The impacts of the atomic bomb and the cold war, 1945-1954 -- The hydrogen bomb, the economy and decolonisation, 1954-1969.

Sommario/riassunto

This book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great power. G. C. Peden explores how from the Edwardian era to the 1960s warfare was transformed by a series of innovations, including dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft, tanks, radar, nuclear weapons and guided missiles. He shows that the cost of these new weapons tended to rise more quickly than national income and argues that strategy had to be adapted to take account of both the increased potency of new weapons and the economy's diminishing ability to



sustain armed forces of a given size. Prior to the development of nuclear weapons, British strategy was based on an ability to wear down an enemy through blockade, attrition (in the First World War) and strategic bombing (in the Second), and therefore power rested as much on economic strength as on armaments.