Description
| Product ID: | 9780367651213 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Modern British History |
| Title: | The British Aircraft Industry and American-led Globalisation |
| Subtitle: | 1943-1982 |
| Authors: | Author: Takeshi Sakade |
| Page Count: | 238 |
| Subjects: | Regional / International studies, Regional studies, European history, History, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Industry and industrial studies, Transport industries, History of science, British & Irish history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, The Cold War, Industry & industrial studies, Aerospace & air transport industries, History of science, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 20th century, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. A valuable read for historians of British aviation and more widely of 20th century British Industry. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-09-25 |
