Dudley Docker
Dudley Docker
AUD$73.95
inc GSTDudley Docker (1862–1944) was one of the most powerful European businessmen of his era, through his secretiveness and taste for intrigue served to obscure his importance. This book is a feat of detection and historical reconstruction which establishes him as a figure of substantial influence. Like all good business history it transcends narrow departmental interests. It is a solid mixture of business, economic, political, social and even diplomatic history. It sketches the life and times of Docker: it describes the deals he fixed, recounts the rise and fall of the companies he directed, but also recreates the milieu in which he worked and portrays British socio-economic history from his standpoint. The book's chief theme is the decline of British industrial hegemony since 1880.
Product details
April 2004Paperback
9780521894005
308 pages
230 × 153 × 17 mm
0.476kg
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Table of Contents
- List of illustrations, figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Dudley Docker and his world
- 2. Domestic life and early career
- 3. Birmingham's industrial titan 1902–14
- 4. Business leagues and business newspapers 1905–14
- 5. The Great War 1914–18
- 6. The Federation of British industries and the British Commonwealth Union 1916–22
- 7. Diplomacy, the British Trade Corporation and the British Stockbrockers Trust 1916–25
- 8. Armaments, electricity and rolling-stock 1917–29
- 9. Inter-war politics 1922–39
- 10. International electrical and railway trusts 1914–44
- 11. Birmingham Small Arms 1918–44
- 12. Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
