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The Pentagon and the Cities

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This volume focusses on the profound impact of defence spending on those local and regional economies that have become dependent upon defence contracts. Contributors discuss the historic role of defence expenditure, patterns of regional change, retructuring the military-industrial complex, the impact and transformation of regional economies and the question of defence spending as urban policy.
Preface - Andrew Kirby The Pentagon - Andrew Kirby versus the Cities? Development Theory and the Military Industrial Firm - Nancy Ettlinger The Pentagon and the Gunbelt - Peter Hall and Ann Markusen Living by the Sword and Dying by the Sword - Richard Barff Defense Spending and New England's Economy in Retrospect and Prospect Military Spending in Free Enterprise Cities - Robert E Parker and Joe Feagin The Military-Industrial Complex in Houston and Las Vegas Indigenous Homelands and the Security Requirements of Western Nation States - Peter Armitage The Case of Innu Opposition to Military Flight Training in Eastern Quebec and Labrador The Legacy of the Pentagon - Gerald Jacob The Myth of the Peace Dividend Escaping the Conceptual Box - Marvin Waterstone and Andrew Kirby Ideological and Economic Conversion Epilogue - Marvin Waterstone The Pentagon, the Cites and Beyond
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