Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade WarriorDudley 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. |
Contents
Dudley Docker and his world | 1 |
Domestic life and early career | 11 |
Birminghams industrial titan 190214 | 24 |
Business Leagues and Business Newspapers 190514 | 55 |
The Great War 191418 | 84 |
The Federation of British Industries and the British Commonwealth Union 191622 | 105 |
Diplomacy the British Trade Corporation and the British Stockbrockers Trust 191625 | 133 |
Armaments electricity and rollingstock 191729 | 155 |
Other editions - View all
Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior R. P. T. Davenport-Hines No preview available - 2004 |
Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior R. P. T. Davenport-Hines No preview available - 1985 |
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Amery appointed April armaments Association August Austen Chamberlain became Belgian Bernard Docker Birmingham Board of Trade Bonar Law Britain British Industries BSA's BTC's Business Leagues Caillard Cammell Laird capital cent chairman Chandler commercial committee Cunliffe-Lister Daimler December diary director Docker Brothers Docker to Maxse Docker to Steel-Maitland Douglas Vickers Dudley Docker economic Economist Edward Holden electrical employers engineering export factories Faringdon February Foreign Office German Globe Hannon Imperial interests January Jenkinson July June Labour Lawrence Lloyd George London Lord Lord Faringdon Ludford Docker manufacturers Manville March MCWF MCWF's memorandum merger Metropolitan Railway Metrovic microfilm Midland Advertiser Midland Bank Minister Ministry Ministry of Munitions Munitions National November Nugent papers October organisation parliamentary Patent Shaft Patrick Hannon political production productioneers profits railway Review rifles rolling-stock Saltley scheme shareholders shares Sofina steel Tariff Unionist Wednesbury Wellesley wrote Wyldbore-Smith