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Few industries attest to the decline of Britain's political and economic power as does the near disappearance of British shipbuilding. On the eve of World War I, British shipbuilding produced more than the rest of the world put together. But by the 1980s, the industry which had dominated world markets and underpinned British maritime power accounted for less than one per cent of world output. Throughout this decline, a remarkable relationship developed between the shipbuilding industry and the Government as both sought to restore the fortunes and dominance of this once great enterprise. This book provides an analysis of 20th-century shipbuilding at the national level. It is based on the full breadth of primary and secondary sources available, blending the records of central Government with those of the Shipbuilding Employers Federation and Shipbuilding Conference, as well as making use of a range of records from individual yards, technical societies and the trade press.

Table of Contents:
List of Tables List of Plates Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Sea Change: The Impact of the Great War and Boom to Bust in the 1920s 2. The Weight of History: The 1930s 3. The Challenge of War 4. The Missed Opportunity 5. Things Begin to Slide 6. Death by Inquiry: Geddes and Jockeying for Position 7. Things Fall Apart 8. Privatised Unto Death Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Lewis Johnman is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Westminster and Secretary of the British Commission for Maritime History; his others books include The Suez Crisis (with Anthony Gorst) (Routledge, 1997) and Down the River: Voices from Clydeside Shipbuilding (Argyll, 2001). Hugh Murphy is Senior Caird Research Fellow at the National Maritime Museum and a Researcher at the Centre for Business History in Scotland at the University of Glasgow.

Review :
A fascinating analysis of the decline of the industry ... The book is packed with facts and figures, and the authors are to be congratulated on their work, which is a must read for anyone who has been associated with this once great industry. ... This is a book for those who are saddened by the demise of our Shipbuilding Industry... I guarantee you will be ... enlightened.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780859896061
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Exeter Press
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Series Title: Exeter Maritime Studies
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0859896064
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jun 2002
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Sub Title: A Political Economy of Decline


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