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Titolo: | The British industrial decline / / edited by Jean-Pierre Dormois and Michael Dintenfass |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
Disciplina: | 338/.00941 |
Soggetto topico: | Industries - Great Britain |
Industrial policy - Great Britain | |
Industrial productivity - Great Britain | |
Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Economic conditions 19th century Regional disparities |
Great Britain Economic conditions 20th century Regional disparities | |
Altri autori: | DormoisJean-Pierre DintenfassMichael <1952-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Foreword by; Introduction; The literature of decline; Converging accounts, misleading metaphors and persistent doubts: reflections on the historiography of Britain's 'decline'; 1066 and a wave of gadgets: the achievements of British growth; Economic growth and performance; Industrial performance, the infrastructure and government policy; Competitiveness and growth: new perspectives on the late Victorian and Edwardian economy; Flagging or failing? British economic performance, 1880 1914; Technology and industry |
The audit of the Great War on British technologyThe balance of technological transfers 1870 1914; Regional vs national perspectives on economic 'decline' in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain; Institutions and culture; Education and economic decline 1870 1914: an innocent suspect?; The voice of industry and the ethos of decline: business citizenship, public service and the making of a British industrial elite; The City of London, 1880 1914: tradition and innovation; A French perspective on the British 'decline'; France's experience of industrial retardation during the Belle Epoque | |
Index of names | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book sets out the present state of the discussion of the decline in British industry and introduces new directions in which the debate is now proceeding. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The British industrial decline |
ISBN: | 1-134-69262-5 |
1-280-31879-1 | |
0-203-44905-3 | |
0-203-26832-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910779944203321 |
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