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The rise and decline of England's watchmaking industry, 1550-1930 / Alun C. Davies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies, Alun C., 1938- author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in modern British history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clock and watch making--Great Britain--History.
- Clock and watch making.
- Clock and watch industry--Great Britain--History.
- Clock and watch industry.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 394 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Dr Alun C. Davies, was educated at the universities of Aberystwyth and Princeton and retired in 1999 after thirty-three years at The Queen's University of Belfast as Reader (and sometime Head of Department) in the Department of Economic and Social History.
- Contents:
- Part 1. Rise
- Origins: from craft to industry
- Supply: Clerkenwell and Prescot: a geographical division of labour
- Supply: two other hubs: Liverpool and Coventry
- Towards English horology's golden age: technology, organisation, rewards
- Demand: domestic, government, and foreign
- Part 2. Challenge
- Clouds on the horizon: Switzerland's challenge
- War and peace, 1793-1817: Crisis, recovery, and crisis again
- The 1817 inquiry: tariffs and smuggling, 1818-1842
- The Ingold episode and after, 1842-1860
- Meeting the challenge: chronometers in war and peace, 1793-1860
- Part 3. Decline
- Revolution in America: evolution in Switzerland
- Consequences for Britain
- The British horological institute: ignoring the elephant
- Twilight in Clerkenwell: ignoring the market
- Attempting the "American system": Birmingham, Coventry and Liverpool
- English chronometers defy decline
- The great war and after
- Postscript: the third horological era.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 02, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Davies, Alun C., 1938- Rise and decline of England's watchmaking industry, 1550-1930.
- ISBN:
- 9781000571875
- 1000571874
- 9781000571905
- 1000571904
- 9781003227823
- 1003227821
- Publisher Number:
- 40031098538
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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