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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.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: business & industry

• Full title: Dudley Docker
• Subtitle: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior
• Author: R. P. T. Davenport-Hines
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308
• EAN: 9780521894005
• ISBN: 052189400X
• ID: 02049552
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 484 g
• Dimensions: 226 × 153 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. April 2004

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