Planning and profits. British naval armaments manufacture and the military complex, 1918-1941

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Examines the relationship between the 'private naval armaments industry, businessmen, and the British government defence planners' between the wars in the context of a producer cartel that fixed warship prices. 'Blends together political, naval, and business history'. Structured in five parts: Part 1] 'Introduction': 'Guilty men. Complexes and legends' / 'Structural changes from the Ministry of Munitions to the Principal Supply Officers' Committee'; Part 2} 'Industry and the Navy before Manchuria and the establishment of the Warshipbuilders' Committee, 1919-31': 'From boom to bust - the private naval arms industry and the Admiralty' / 'From competition to collaboration - the Warshipbuilders' Committee and the National Shipbuilders' Security Scheme, 1926-31'; Part 3] 'The formation of outsiders and insiders - industry and rehabilitation of the supply planning framework' / 'The advisory panel of industrialists and inside information, 1933-34'; Part 4] 'The ultimate potential enemy and rearmament planning, 1934-36': 'Towards rearmament, 1934-35' / 'The White Papers, 1935-36'; Part 5] 'The Inskip era and war, 1936-41': 'The Minister for Co-ordination of Defence and early rearmament' / 'Later rearmament and war supply organisation, 1937-41'. See the writer's doctoral thesis 'Planning and Profits. The political economy of private naval armaments manufacture and supply organisation in Britain, 1918-41', Glasgow, 2015