Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain

When President Eisenhower referred to the "military-industrial complex" in his 1961 Farewell Address, he summed up in...
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Author: Katherine C. Epstein
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Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain by Epstein, Katherine C.

Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain

€125,28

Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain

€125,28
Author: Katherine C. Epstein
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

When President Eisenhower referred to the "military-industrial complex" in his 1961 Farewell Address, he summed up in a phrase the merger of government and industry that dominated the Cold War United States. In this bold reappraisal, Katherine Epstein uncovers the origins of the military-industrial complex in the decades preceding World War I, as the United States and Great Britain struggled to perfect a crucial new weapon: the self-propelled torpedo.

Torpedoes epitomized the intersection of geopolitics, globalization, and industrialization at the turn of the twentieth century. They threatened to revolutionize naval warfare by upending the delicate balance among the world's naval powers. They were bought and sold in a global marketplace, and they were cutting-edge industrial technologies. Building them, however, required substantial capital investments and close collaboration among scientists, engineers, businessmen, and naval officers. To address these formidable challenges, the U.S. and British navies created a new procurement paradigm: instead of buying finished armaments from the private sector or developing them from scratch at public expense, they began to invest in private-sector research and development. The inventions emerging from torpedo R&D sparked legal battles over intellectual property rights that reshaped national security law.

Blending military, legal, and business history with the history of science and technology, Torpedo recasts the role of naval power in the run-up to World War I and exposes how national security can clash with property rights in the modern era.



Author: Katherine C. Epstein
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 01/02/2014
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.39w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9780674725263


Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2014

About the Author
Epstein, Katherine C.: - Katherine C. Epstein is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University-Camden.

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