Edgerton, David

Edgerton, David, England and the Aeroplane An Essay on a Militant and Industrial Nation, Basingstoke Macmillan, 1991. 

Edgerton, David. Warfare State Britain, 1920-1970 (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2006). 

Edgerton, David. The Shock of the Old Technology and Global History since 1900. New York Oxford University Press, 2007. 

David Edgerton, England and the Aeroplane An Essay on a Militant and Technological Nation (Basingstoke Macmillan, 1991) Liberal militarism and the British state . New Left Review 185 (1991), 138-69 Warfare State Britain, 1920-1970 (Cambridge University Press, 2006). 

David Edgerton, The prophet militant and industrial the peculiarities of Correlli Barnett , Twentieth Century British History 2 (1991), 360-79. The contributors to Bruce Collins and Keith Robbins (eds.), British Culture and Economic Decline (London Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990), deal critically with Barnett s thesis and also the work of Martin J. Wiener, English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit 1850-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 1981), pointing out that cultural differences between Britain and Germany were less significant than is often supposed. 

Though some women chemists were drafted for war work, most male scientists retained their positions during the Second World War, unlike the First. David Edgerton has noted Crucially, there was no systematic replacement of men by women, least of all in science, technology and medicine 92 — as had been the case in the First World War. 

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