Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on December 7, 2007
Enterprise and Society, doi:10.1093/es/khm087
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Jonathan A. Grant. Rulers, Guns, and Money: The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism
Jonathan A. Grant. Rulers, Guns, and Money: The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xi + 288 pp. ISBN: 0-674-0244-27, $49.95
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Jonathan Grant approaches his topic of the late nineteenth-century arms races with a frank admission that he believes such developments are best understood through the particularity of the events, rather than through some theoretical construct. As a consequence of this orientation, he proceeds to study arms races and the arms trade through the examination of a truly impressive array of specific international arms deals from the 1860s through the first decade of the twentieth century.
Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University