The British Industrial Decline (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Dintenfass, Michael; Dormois, Jean-Pierre

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The decline of British Industry in the late Victorian and early Edwardian period is the subject of major concern to economic and modern British historians. This book sets out the present state of the discussion and introduces new directions in which the debate about the British decline is now proceeding:
Among other themes, the book examines:
* the role of the service sector alongside manufacturing
* the distinctiveness of the British regions
* the state's role in the British decline including an analysis of its responsibility for the maintenance and modernization of infrastructure
* the association of aristocratic values with entrepreneurial vitality
* how British historians have discussed success and failure, with a critique of the literature of decline.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134692620
• Artikelnr.: 43074289

Autorenporträt

Michael Dintenfass, Jean-Pierre Dormois

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction The Literature of Decline 1. Converging Accounts,
Misleading Metaphors, and Persistent Doubts: Reflections on the
Historiography of Britain's Decline Michael Dintenfass 2. 1066 and a Wave
of Gadgets: The Achievements of British Growth Donald N. McCloskey Economic
Growth and Performance 3. Industrial Performance, the Infrastructure and
Government Policy Robert Millward 4. Competitiveness and Growth: New
Perspectives on the Late-Victorian and Edwardian Economy David Greasley and
Les Oxley 5. Flagging or Failing: British Economic Performance, 1880-1914
B.W.E. Alford Technology and Industry 6. The Audit of the Great War on
British Technology Correlli Barnett 7. The Balance of Technological
Transfers 1870-1914 James Foreman-Peck 8. Regional vs. National
Perspectives on Economic Decline in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
W.R. Garside Institutions and Culture 9. Education and Economic Decline
1870-1914: An Innocent Suspect? Michael Sanderson 10. The Voice of Industry
and the Ethos of Decline: Industrial Citizenship, Public Service, the
Making of a British Industrial Elite Michael Dintenfass 11. The City of
London, 1880-1914: Tradition and Innovation Peter Cain A French Perspective
on the British 'Decline' 12. France's Experience of Industrial Retardation
During the Belle Epoque Jean-Pierre Dormois