Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521894005)

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 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.

Author: R. P. T. Davenport-Hines,Davenport-Hines R. P. T.
ISBN-10: 052189400X
ISBN-13: 9780521894005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/22/2004
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d