Takeshi Sakade

The British Aircraft Industry and American-led Globalisation

1943-1982

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Produktbeschreibung

Sakade challenges the narrative that the focus of British manufacturing went "from Empire to Europe" and argues rather that, following the Second World War, the key relationship was in fact trans-Atlantic. There is a commonly accepted belief that, during the twentieth century, British manufacturing declined irreparably, that Britain lost its industrial hegemony. But this is too simplistic. In fact, in the decades after 1945, Britain staked out a new role for itself as a key participant in a US-led process of globalisation. Far from becoming merely a European player, the UK actually managed to preserve a key share in a global market, and the British defence industry was, to a large extent, successfully rehabilitated. Sakade returns to the original scholarly parameters of the decline controversy, and especially questions around post-war decline in the fields of high technology and the national defence industrial base. Using the case of the strategically critical military and civil aircraft industry, he argues that British industry remained relatively robust. A valuable read for historians of British aviation and more widely of 20th century British Industry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780367651206
• ISBN-10: 0367651203
• Artikelnr.: 62634660

Autorenporträt

Takeshi Sakade is Associate Professor in Graduate School of Economics at Kyoto University, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Britain's 'new role' between Europe and the US after 1945 Part I. The Post
War British Aircraft Industry, 1943
1964 1. The origins of Anglo
American production collaboration in the first jet
age (1943
56) 2. Sandy's Defence White Paper and the Rationalisation of the British Aircraft Industry, 1957
60 3. BOAC's Financial Crisis and the End of the "Fly British" Policy, 1963
66 Part II. The British Dilemma. 1964
1969 4. The Cancellation of Britain's Top Projects, 1963
65 5. The Politics Behind the Plowden Doctrine: European and American Alternatives for the British Aircraft Industry 6. The "European Technological Community" and the Anglo
German MRCA project, 1966
69 Part III. European cooperative airliner projects and Anglo
American Industrial Collaboration, 1968
1982 7. The second jet age and the bankruptcy of Rolls
Royce, 1967
71 8. Trapped in a Loveless Marriage: The Anglo
French Concorde crisis of 1974 9. Playing a Double Game: The British aircraft industry in the third jet age Conclusion