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The British Aircraft Industry and American-led Globalisation - 1943-1982 (Hardcover)
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The British Aircraft Industry and American-led Globalisation - 1943-1982 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
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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.
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