Author: David HortonPublisher:
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Category : Imports
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Import Policies and Programs of the War Production Board and Predecessor Agencies, May 1940 to November 1945
Author: David HortonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imports
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Import Policies and Programs of the War Production Board and Predecessor Agencies, May 1940 to November 1945
Author: David HortonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imports
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Historical Reports on War Administration
Author: Temporary Controls OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Federal Records of World War II.: Civilian agencies
Author: National Archives (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Federal Records of World War II.: Civilian agencies
Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Arsenal of World War II
Author: Paul A. C. KoistinenPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Prolific munitions production keyed America's triumph in World War II but so did the complex economic controls needed to sustain that production. Artillery, tanks, planes, ships, trucks, and weaponry of every kind were constantly demanded by the military and readily supplied by American business. While that relationship was remarkably successful in helping the U.S. win the war, it also raised troubling issues about wartime economies that have never been fully resolved. Paul Koistinen's fourth installment of a monumental five-volume series on the political economy of American warfare focuses on the mobilization of national resources for a truly global war. Koistinen comprehensively analyzes all relevant aspects of the World War II economy from 1940 through 1945, describing the nation's struggle to establish effective control over industrial supply and military demand—and revealing the growing partnership between the corporate community and the armed services. Koistinen traces the evolution of federal agencies mobilizing for war—including the National Defense Advisory Commission, the Office of Production Management, and the Supply Priorities and Allocation Board-and then focuses on the work of the War Production Board from 1942-1945. As the war progressed, the WPB and related agencies oversaw the military's supply and procurement systems; stabilized the economy while financing the war; closely monitored labor relations; and controlled the shipping and rationing of fuel and food. In chronicling American mobilization, Koistinen reveals how representatives of industry and the armed services expanded upon their growing prewar ties to shape policies for harnessing the economy, and how federal agencies were subsequently riven with dissension as New Deal reformers and anti-New Deal corporate elements battled for control over mobilization itself. As the armed services emerged as the principal customers of a command economy, the military-industrial nexus consolidated its power and ultimately succeeded in bending the reformers to its will. The product of exhaustive archival research, Arsenal of World War II shows that mobilization meant more than simply harnessing the economy for war-it also involved struggles for power and position among a great many interest groups and ideologies. Nearly two decades in the making, it provides an ambitious and enormously insightful overview of the emergence of the military-industrial economy, one that still resonates today as America continues to wage wars around the globe.
Federal Historical Reports
Author: United States. Bureau of the BudgetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
List of World War II Historical Studies Made by Civilian Agencies of the Federal Government
Author: United States. National Historical Publications CommissionPublisher:
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Domestic Mining Industry of the United States in World War II
Author: John Davis MorganPublisher:
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The United States and the Global Struggle for Minerals
Author: Alfred E. EckesPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477300791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
In 1973–1974 soaring commodity prices and an oil embargo alerted Americans to the twin dangers of resource exhaustion and dependence on unreliable foreign materials suppliers. This period seemed to mark a watershed in history as the United States shifted from the era of relative resource abundance to relative materials scarcity. Alfred E. Eckes’s comprehensive study shows that resource depletion and supply dislocations are not concerns unique to the 1970s. Since 1914, the quest for secure and stable supplies of industrial materials has been an important underlying theme of international relations and American diplomacy. Although the United States has been blessed with a diversified materials base, it has pursued a minerals strategy designed to exploit low-cost, high-quality ores abroad. Eckes demonstrates how this policy has led to official protection for overseas private investments, involving a role for the Central Intelligence Agency. Some modern historians have neglected the importance of resources in shaping diplomacy and history. This book, based on a vast variety of unutilized archival collections and recently declassified government documents, helps to correct that imbalance. In the process it illuminates an important and still timely aspect of America’s global interests.