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Dudley Docker : the life and times of a trade warrior
Responsibility | R.P.T. Davenport-Hines |
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Material Type | Book |
Publisher | Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press |
Year | 1984 |
Language | English |
Size | xii, 295 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm |
Abstract | Dudley 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 detect...on 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. show more |
Holdings
Status | Volume | Location | Call No. | Printed | Collection Name | Barcode No. | Comments | Reserve | Copy | Automatic archive |
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Central Library 3B | 335.2/D 46-1/1 | 1984 |
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068172185005154 |
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Bibliographic details
Notes | Bibliography: p. 277-283 Includes index |
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Authors | *Davenport-Hines, R. P. T. (Richard Peter Treadwell), 1953- |
Subjects | LCSH:Docker, Dudley LCSH:Businessmen -- Great Britain -- Biography All Subject Search LCSH:Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century All Subject Search LCSH:Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 20th century All Subject Search |
Classification | LCC:HC252.5.D63 DC19:338.092/4 DC19:B |
ID | 1000603039 |
ISBN | 0521265576 |
NCID | BA04601582 |
Vol | ISBN:0521265576 |
Created Date | 2009.09.14 |
Modified Date | 2009.09.14 |