The British Aircraft Industry and American-led Globalisation

1943-1982

Takeshi Sakade (Kyoto University, Japan)

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Routledge
25 September 2023

Regional studies; British & Irish history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Industry & industrial studies

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

"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."

By: Takeshi Sakade (Kyoto University Japan)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367651213
ISBN 10: 0367651211
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Takeshi Sakade is Associate Professor in Graduate School of Economics at Kyoto University, Japan.