Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Britain, America and Rearmament in the 1930s

The Cost of Failure

  • Book
  • © 2001

Overview

Authors:
  1. Christopher Price

    1. University of York, UK

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
    Download chapter PDF

  2. New Rules for an Old Game: the Shaping of Fourth Arm Concepts in a Fluid Environment, 1919–31

    • Christopher Price
    Pages 1-23

  3. ‘On the Upgrade’: Britain’s Unwelcome Recovery, 1931–36

    • Christopher Price
    Pages 24-44

  4. ‘The Destiny of Tomorrow’: a Transatlantic Alliance Forms against Ottawa, 1936

    • Christopher Price
    Pages 45-65

  5. The Devil in the Detail: a Necessary Case for Economic Danger and the Formulation of the Fourth Arm Policy, 1937–38

    • Christopher Price
    Pages 66-91

  6. Between Hitler and Wall Street: Undeclared War versus Business as Usual, March–October 1938

    • Christopher Price
    Pages 92-117

  7. ‘It Seems like Insanity’: the Anglo-American Trade Agreement of 1938 and the Point of No Return

    • Christopher Price
    Pages 118-131

  8. A ‘Maginot Line for the Pound’: Profligacy in Defence of a Bankrupt Policy, November 1938–January 1939

    • Christopher Price
    Pages 132-158

  9. ‘Not a Damned Bit Good’: the Concealed Catastrophe, 1939

    • Christopher Price
    Pages 159-181

  10. Conclusion

    • Christopher Price
    Pages 182-189

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 190-228
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This book is the first to challenge current orthodoxy that Chamberlain's appeasement policy before World War Two was justified by Britain's inability to pay for rearmament. The book shows that British war potential was actually massive, with a solid foundation in the existing Imperial economy. Using previously unconsidered and recently declassified documents from British and American archives the author demonstrates that the deliberate and political rejection of rearmament in the hope of eventual American support proved catastrophic for Britain.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of York, UK

    Christopher Price

About the author

CHRISTOPHER PRICE specialises in the study of British history and international relations between the world wars, and has written on British rearmament and Anglo-American political economy. Since completing his doctorate in 1998 he has worked as a Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds, College of Ripon and York in the Programme of American Studies. He is shortly to teach in the Department of Economics at the University of York.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation