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Engines of Destruction in the Great War: Artillery, Society, War Finance, and the Emergence of the Total State

Engines of Destruction in the Great War: Artillery, Society, War Finance, and the Emergence of the Total State

Update: 2025-05-16
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How did the state grow from Machiavelli to World War I? Hunt Tooley reveals how artillery, arms dealers, and bankers turned war into profitable, prolonged carnage.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on May 16, 2025.

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Engines of Destruction in the Great War: Artillery, Society, War Finance, and the Emergence of the Total State

Engines of Destruction in the Great War: Artillery, Society, War Finance, and the Emergence of the Total State

T. Hunt Tooley