Joseph Maiolo
Autor de Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941
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The Cambridge History of the Second World War Volume II: Politics and Ideology (2015) — Editor — 24 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1965-06-22
- Género
- male
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Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War,… por Joseph Maiolo
While I'm impressed with the research that went into this study, I also have to concure that Maiolo's efforts to tie the expression of the logic of total war that is an arms race to diplomatic developments doesn't quite come off. Perhaps the problem is that this book seems to sit uneasily between being a comparative study of the mobilization theories of the Great Powers in the Inter-War Period and a narrative history of the Thirties as an arms race. Another issue might simply be that I've read enough of Maiolo's sources that there's no way that this book can seem that fresh, though he is to be complimented on treating the twentieth century's history of arms races as a continuum and his prose does have snap.… (más)
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Shrike58 | otra reseña | Jan 6, 2011 |
Shrike58 | otra reseña | Jan 6, 2011 | The author has a thesis of the arms race driving the diplomacy instead of the reverse. He's done a good job of researching the arms race but a less than stellar job of tying it to either the diplomacy or the internal politics. He also sees the need to make comments about things such as the US Bonus March that he clearly has no grasp of. This is a useful synthesis of the arms race but of little use to anyone who does not know the rest of the period well. Pity as the thesis is interesting.
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