TY - BOOK ID - 73695565 TI - Peace and disarmament : naval rivalry and arms control, 1922-1933 PY - 1994 SN - 0813118786 9780813118789 PB - Lexington, Ky. University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Arms control KW - History KW - Navies KW - Sea power KW - Arms control - History. KW - Navies - History. KW - Sea-power - History. KW - Sea-power KW - Military power KW - Navy KW - Armed Forces KW - Naval art and science KW - Warships KW - Security, International KW - Arms race KW - Disarmament KW - Military readiness KW - Arms KW - Geschichte KW - 1922-1933 KW - J4888.10 KW - J4884 KW - J4880.80 KW - Japan: Defense and military -- arms, weaponry KW - Japan: Defense and military -- navy KW - Japan: Defense and military -- history -- Gendai (1926- ), prewar Shōwa period, WW II, 20th century UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:73695565 AB - "Arms control remains a major international issue as the twentieth century closes, but it is hardly a new concern. The effort to limit military power has enjoyed recurring support since shortly after World War I, when the United States, Britain, and Japan sought naval arms control as a means to insure stability in the Far East, contain naval expenditure, and prevent another world cataclysm."--BOOK JACKET. "Richard Fanning examines the efforts of American, British, and Japanese leaders - political, military, and social - to reach agreement on naval limitation between 1922 and the mid-1930s, with focus on the years 1927-30, when political leaders, statesmen, naval officers, and various civilian pressure groups were especially active in considering naval limits. The civilian and even some military actors believed the Great War had been an aberration and that international stability would reign in the near future. But the coming of the Great Depression brought a dramatic drop in concern for disarmament."--BOOK JACKET. "This study, based on a wide variety of unpublished sources, compares the cultural underpinnings of the disarmament movement in the three countries, especially the effects of public opinion, through examination of the many peace groups that played an important role in the disarmament process. The decision to strive for arms control, he finds, usually resulted from peace group pressure and political expediency."--BOOK JACKET. "For anyone interested in naval history, this book illuminates the beginnings of the arms limitation effort and the growth of the peace movement."--BOOK JACKET. ER -