{"product_id":"the-british-aircraft-industry-and-takeshi-sakade-9780367651206","title":"The British Aircraft Industry and American-led Globalisation: 1943-1982","description":"\u003cp\u003eSakade 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA valuable read for historians of British aviation and more widely of 20th century British Industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Takeshi Sakade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367651203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367651206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Takeshi Sakade","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44058487816447,"sku":"9780367651206","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bd1fe039-6b98-4707-be3d-21df2e4addce.jpg?v=1685052846","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-british-aircraft-industry-and-takeshi-sakade-9780367651206","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}