Girding for battle : the arms trade in a global perspective, 1815-1940 / edited by Donald J. Stoker, Jr. and Jonathan A. Grant.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-229) and index.

Introduction: The Arms Trade in a Global Perspective / Jonathan A. Grant -- Ch. 1. Egypt's Nineteenth-Century Armaments Industry / John Dunn -- Ch. 2. The Arms Trade in Eastern Europe, 1870-1914 / Jonathan A. Grant -- Ch. 3. The New Navy and the Old World: The United States Navy's Foreign Arms Purchasing in the Late Nineteenth Century / Stephen K. Stein -- Ch. 4. The Art of the Deal / William F. Sater and Holger H. Herwig -- Ch. 5. Undermining the Cordon Sanitaire: Naval Arms Sales and Anglo-French Competition in Latvia, 1924-25 / Donald J. Stoker Jr. -- Ch. 6. German Secret Submarine Exports, 1919-35 / Bjorn Forsen and Annette Forsen -- Ch. 7. The Politics of Arms Not Given: Japan, Ethiopia, and Italy in the 1930s / J. Calvitt Clarke III -- Ch. 8. The Most Unlikely of Allies: Hitler and Haile Selassie and the Defense of Ethiopia, 1935-36 / Ed Westermann -- Ch. 9. Italo-Soviet Military Cooperation in the 1930s / J. Calvitt Clarke III -- Ch. 10. United States-Soviet Naval Relations in the 1930s: The Soviet Union's Efforts to Purchase Naval Vessels / Thomas R. Maddux.