Merchants Of Death Research Articles

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

Preface Perspectives on the Munitions Inquiry and the Interwar Years The Formation of the Munitions Committee, August 1933 to August 1934 The Roosevelt Administration, the Du Ponts, and the First Munitions Hearings, August 1934 to December 1934 Examining the Du Ponts, December 1934 to January 1935 Shipbuilding and War Profits: Discovering the Impact of Total War in Modern Society, January 1935 to April 1935 From the Early Thirties to the Later Thirties: Crossing the Divide, April 1935 to January 1936 The Munitions Committee in a New World: Examining World War I Finance, January 1936 to February 1936 Beyond the Merchants of Death: Recovering the History of the Munitions Committee Selected Bibliography Index

British Rearmament and the 'Merchants of Death': The 1935-36 Royal Commission on the Manufacture of and Trade in Armaments

British Rearmament and the 'Merchants of Death': The 1935-36 Royal Commission on the Manufacture of and Trade in Armaments

Political Implications of Illegal Arms Exports from the United States

The study of international arms trade has come in bursts. In the 1930s the proliferation of studies coincided with the international attention given the merchants of death and their alleged responsibility for World War I. As the League of Nations and eventually most arms producing nations debated the negative consequences of the private trade in arms, a great deal of light was shed on the patterns, purposes, and effects of this trade.' In the 1970s, as the rise in oil prices and the end of the colonial era led to major changes in the arms trade, academicians, journalists, and policy analysts responded with an outpouring of studies and analyses of governmental arms trade.2 By the mid-1980s, attention was once again drawn to the international trade in arms, but this time to those transactions termed illicit or illegal. Headlines in the United States regularly disclosed indictments for the illegal export of significant military equipment from the United States to the USSR, Eastern bloc countries, Iran, South Africa, the Irish Republican Army, or some other country on the prohibited list. Congres-

Engines of War: Merchants of Death and the New Arms Race

Describes how, since the invasion of Afghanistan and the Iran-Iraq war, the arms trade has changed, with weapons now being designed mainly for export and power passing from the sellers to the buyers.

Whatever Happened to the Merchants of Death? Normal Supply Versus Catastrophic Demand

Whatever Happened to the Merchants of Death? Normal Supply Versus Catastrophic Demand

Japan: Another ‘Merchant of Death’ in the Making?

Japan: Another ‘Merchant of Death’ in the Making?

Legends of the British Armament Industry 1890-1914: A Revision

The conventional comment on the antebellum armament trade is phrased in terms of abuse. Even before I9I4, pacifically inclined socialists learned to despise the 'war-mongering' armourers, doctrinaire free traders to distrust the great munitions combines, and poorly endowed social reformers to rail against expensive 'bloated armaments'. In the I920s and I930s the protests accumulated into a shrill campaign for nationalization. Added strength was given to the movement by the search for scapegoats after the Great War. The carnage of Flanders could not be blamed on the gallant and decimated soldiery, and, as yet, only an informed minority could turn against the commanders. Not many thought to blame a Government which, despite blunders, in the end secured total victory. But even at the time those who had made profits out of war provided universally recognizable and ideally culpable whipping-boys. The distaste for trade, rooted deep in British social values, no doubt helped in the selection of an industrial victim. In such a climate, objective assessment of the armament industry was impossible. Hostility to the armourers was firmly entrenched, yet facts about their dealings were scarce. The result was a literature of vilification. Lacking information, it found a basis in innuendo and gossip. Compensating for the absence of solid foundation, it offered hypotheses heavily flavoured with prejudice, alarmism and, occasionally, honest pacifism. Titles like The Merchants of Death, The Bloody Traffic, The Secret International, or This War Business, aptly summarized the bias of their authors. Criticism was not, however, confined to a series of journalistic explosions; more authoritative condemnation came from the

The Problem of the Drillmaster

Now that the war emergency is past we can look forward to a flood of reports and evaluations which are concerned with the various aspects of the war effort. In time undoubtedly a series of books such as Merchants of Death will appear to give us the less spectacular and less successful aspects of the war effort, which were not revealed earlier for security reasons, or simply because it was unpopular to do so. Regarding the Army Specialized Training Program, in so far as it concerned the teaching of foreign languages, there was not much time lost in examining and discussing it while the war was still in progress and since the termination of hostilities. The report of the Special Committee of the MLA, published in 1944 was the first comprehensive authoritative report on the subject, and The Army Specialized Training Issue of the GERMAN QUARTERLY (Vol. XVII, Nov. 1944, No. 4, Part 1) contains an excellent summary of the reactions, pro and con, of outstanding educators in the field. Meanwhile the question as to what can profitably be adopted for civilian classes in colleges and universities has become one of timely interest. Various reports, those mentioned and numerous others exploring the possibilities of adopting some features of the army program, cover the subject rather well except for one problem which, if mentioned at all, is given comparatively little attention; a matter which is, nevertheless, of great importance, if the question is discussed: what features of the ASTP should be retained or adopted for the teaching of civilian classes? It is the problem of the drillmaster.

Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armaments Industry.

Journal Article Merchants of Death: a study of the International Armaments Industry Get access 39. Merchants of Death: a study of the International Armaments Industry. By H. C. Engelbrecht and F. C. Hanighen. 1934. (New York: Dodd, Mead; London: Routledge. 8vo. vii + 312 pp. 7s. 6d.) Freda White Freda White Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 13, Issue 6, November 1934, Pages 861–862, https://doi.org/10.2307/2603350 Published: 01 November 1934