The American warfare state : the domestic politics of military spending / Rebecca U. Thorpe.
The American warfare state : the domestic politics of military spending / Rebecca U. Thorpe.
The American warfare state : the domestic politics of military spending / Rebecca U. Thorpe.
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
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G 2015/3432
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English
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xi, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Part I. Theoretical and historical overview : Introduction : Perpetuating the US military economy -- Presidential war powers in historical perspective -- Part II. World War II and the politics of defense spending : World War II military mobilization: origins of the rural defense pork barrel -- From...
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
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Illinois
Date Published
2014.
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"In The American Warfare State, Rebecca U. Thorpe argues that there are profound relationships among the size and persistence of the American military complex, the growth in presidential power to launch military actions, and the decline of congressional willingness to check this power. The public costs of military mobilization and war, including th...
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The American warfare state : the domestic politics of military spending / Rebecca U. Thorpe.
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Chicago series on international and domestic institutions.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index.
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G 2015/3432
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74VKRzGz5opb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKRzGz5opb
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022612407X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226123912 (cloth : alk. paper)
022612391X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226124070 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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322.50973
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991023123739702626
