Iron Shipbuilding on the Thames, 1832-1915. An economic and business history
Details:
- Author(s) Arnold, A J
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2000
- Pages 198pp
- Publisher Ashgate Publishing
- Place Published Aldershot
Topics:
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of industries
- Name Government procurement
- Name Vertical integration [currently subject to editing]
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly account dealing with the early national dominance of the industry through to the era of iron shipbuilding and steam technology and its subsequent decline and the reasons for this. Has chapters: 'Iron shipbuilding comes to rural London, 1832-46'; 'Vertical integration, 1847-53'; 'The Crimean War and the first crisis, 1854-59'; 'Trade boom and the effects of 'shady finance', 1860-67'; 'The long slump, 1868-88'; 'An excessive dependence on the state, 1889-1915'. Appendices list ships built for Admiralty, 1832-1915; ships built by Ditchburn, Mare and Thames Ironworks, 1837-1912. References to many individual yards. See the review article John Beeler et al, 'Roundtable. Reviews of A J Arnold,'Iron Shipbuilding on the Thames, 1832-1915. An economic and business history' in International Journal of Maritime History, 14/1, 2002, pp247-86