The British Aircraft Industry and American-led Globalisation: 1943-1982

by Takeshi Sakade

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367651203
• ISBN13: 9780367651206
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"