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The Senate Munitions Inquiry of the 1930s: Beyond the Merchants of Death

The Senate Munitions Inquiry of the 1930s: Beyond the Merchants of Death

Coulter, Matthew Ware

Hardcover

Series: Contributions in American History, Book 177

Business General20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0313303940
ISBN13: 9780313303944
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Jul 23 1997
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.54
Language: English
The Munitions Inquiry, often called the Nye Committee after its chairperson, Senator Gerald Nye, critically examined the pre-World War II military-industrial complex of government agencies, corporations, labor unions, and financial institutions. Cold War-era historians typically presented the inquiry as a naive isolationist search for evil arms dealers who caused wars. Going beyond the concept of the Merchants of Death theory and into the social, intellectual, political, and cultural currents of the 1930s, Coulter expands the dimensions of a topic formerly framed within the narrow confines of isolationism and internationalism. In addition, he shows how the committee's 19th-century values and progressive idealism were unsuited to an era dominated by Hitler and Mussolini. In divesting the Munitions Inquiry of its image as an historical oddity, this book recovers a piece of American history that had been a casualty of World War II and the Cold War.

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