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Torpedo : Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain by Epstein, Katherine C. is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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When President Eisenhower referred to the "military-industrial complex" in his 1961 Farewell Address, he summed up in a phrase the merger of government and industry that dominated the Cold War United States. In this bold reappraisal, Katherine Epstein uncovers the origins of the military-industrial complex in the decades preceding World War I, as the United States and Great Britain struggled to perfect a crucial new weapon: the self-propelled torpedo. Torpedoes epitomized the intersection of geo
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- Author
- Epstein, Katherine C.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674725263
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Economics, Military
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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