build-ups

Updated: May 12, 2025

In the course of voyaging, "discovery" and the establishment of trade, Europeans set up military outposts and maintained increasingly large naval forces. The avowed object of these military and naval build-ups was to defend and promote Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, French and British imperial interests.

Scott Nearing - Civilization and Beyond: Learning from History

Nineteenth and early twentieth century history centered around such international experiments and included inter-state build-ups like the European Common Market and the Organization of American States. War losses and emergency spending incident to warfare led to large scale financial assistance from one government to another.

Scott Nearing - Civilization and Beyond: Learning from History