Dealing in Death. The arms trade and the British Civil Wars, 1638-1652
Details:
- Author(s) Edwards, Peter
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2000
- Pages 292pp; illus
- Publisher Sutton Publishing
- Place Published Stroud
Topics:
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
- Name Government procurement
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with the supply of arms and munitions, horses and other war equipment to the Parliamentarian and Royalist armies as a step to understanding better the history of the conflict. Deals with the Ordnance Office [as the Parliamentarian organisation for arms supply] and the equivalent Royalist organisation at Oxford. Has chapters on home production and supply of weapons; ordnance and munitions; clothing and equipment; horses and their equipment. Also covers imports of materiel, finance and transport, especially shipping