Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior

By Richard Davenport-Hines and R.P.T. Davenport-Hines

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052189400X
• ISBN13: 9780521894005
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"