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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
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monografia Rebiun28698978 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun28698978 m o d | cr -n--------- 180331s1999 enka ob 001 0 eng d 98022609 1-134-69262-5 1-280-31879-1 0-203-44905-3 0-203-26832-6 10.4324/9780203449059 doi UPVA 997912992603706 UAM 991008009263004211 CBUC 991010492770906709 CBUC 991001006070106712 CBUC 991010492770906709 MiAaPQ MiAaPQ MiAaPQ eng e-uk--- The British industrial decline edited by Jean-Pierre Dormois and Michael Dintenfass London New York Routledge 1999 London New York London New York Routledge 1 online resource (247 p.) 1 online resource (247 p.) Routledge explorations in economic history 10 Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references and index 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 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 English Dormois, Jean-Pierre Dintenfass, Michael 1952-) 1-138-86822-1 0-415-17231-4 Routledge explorations in economic history 10