Girding for Battle

DONALD J. STOKER JR. is Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy at the U.S. Naval War College, Monterey Programs Office. Among his earlier publications is Britain, France, and the Naval Arms Trade in the Baltic.JONATHAN A. GRANT is Associate Professor of Modern Russian History at Florida State University. He is the author of Big Business in Russia: The Putilov Company in Late Imperial Russia, 1868-1917 as well as articles dealing with defense industries and the arms trade.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Arms Trade in a Global Perspective by Jonathan A. GrantEgypt's Nineteenth-Century Armaments Industry by John DunnThe Arms Trade in Eastern Europe, 1870-1914 by Jonathan A. GrantThe New Navy and the Old World: The United States Navy's Foreign Arms Purchasing in the Late Nineteenth Century by Stephen K. SteinThe Art of the Deal by William F. Sater and Holger H. HerwigUndermining the Cordon Sanitaire: Naval Arms Sales and Anglo-French Competition in Latvia, 1924-25 by Donald J. Stoker Jr.German Secret Submarine Exports, 1919-35 by Björn ForsénThe Politics of Arms Not Given: Japan, Ethiopia, and Italy in the 1930's by J. Calvitt Clarke IIIThe Most Unlikely of Allies: Hitler and Haile Selassie and the Defense of Ethiopia, 1935-36 by Ed WestermannItalo-Soviet Military Cooperation in the 1930s by J. Calvitt Clarke IIIUnited States-Soviet Naval Relations in the 1930s: The Soviet Union's Efforts to Purchase Naval Vessels by Thomas R. MadduxWorks CitedIndexAbout the Contributors