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How Well Do Facts Travel? : The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge

This book discusses how facts travel, and when and why they sometimes travel well enough to acquire a life of their own. Whether or not facts travel in this manner depends not only on their character and ability to play useful roles elsewhere, but al

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Lessons Learned? British Mobilization for the Two World Wars

Autor: Stephen Broadberry, Peter Howlett

Publikováno v: Economic History of Warfare and State Formation ISBN: 9789811016042

We compare the mobilization of the British economy during the two world wars, asking to what extent performance improved in World War II as a result of lessons learned from the experience of World War I. We find that government controls were introduc

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1605-9_8

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Trade, convergence, and globalisation: The dynamics of the international income distribution, 1950–1998

Autor: Max-Stephan Schulze, Philip Epstein, Peter Howlett

Publikováno v: Explorations in Economic History. 44:100-113

This paper investigates the evidence for convergence in per capita incomes across 115 economies during the period 1950–1998 and examines the impact that international trade had on this process. Drawing on trade-conditioning within a distribution dy

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2005.10.006

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Book Reviews: British Rail, 1974–97: From Integration to Privatisation, Making Histories in Transport Museums, Classics in Transport Analysis III, Railways, the Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Perils of the Atlantic: Steamship Disasters, 1850s to the Present, Framing Production: Technology, Culture and Change in the British Bicycle Industry, Airspaces, Companion to British Road Haulage History, Come Fly with Us: A Global History of the Airline Hostess, Stalin's Railroad: Turksib and the Building of Socialism, Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: An Oxford Gazetteer of Structures and Sites, the Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground, Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers, Staying on Track: The Reflections of a Railwayman

Autor: Gregory L. Thompson, Sophie Forgan, Peter Howlett, Ben Marsden, John Armstrong, Nicholas Oddy, Peter Lyth, Tony Kirby, Drew Whitelegg, Shane O'Rourke, Jeffrey Richards, Ralph Harrington, Michael R. Bailey, David E. Tyrrall

Publikováno v: The Journal of Transport History. 25:108-126

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https://doi.org/10.7227/tjth.25.1.7

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Evidence of the Existence of an Internal Labour Market in the Great Eastern Railway Company, 1875–1905

Autor: Peter Howlett

Publikováno v: Business History. 42:21-40

Evidence from promotion ladders and the wage payment system of the GER is evaluated to see if it supports existing claims, primarily based on welfare and pension provision, that by 1900 the railway companies had become the first important adherents i

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https://doi.org/10.1080/00076790000000173

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Britain and the Economic Problem of the Cold War: The Political Economy and the Economic Impact of the British Defence Effort, 1945–1955. By Till Geiger. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. xiii + 357 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN: 0-754-60287-7

Autor: Peter Howlett

Publikováno v: Business History Review. 80:811-813

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https://doi.org/10.2307/25097286

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Doing Business with the Nazis: Britain’s Economic and Financial Relations with Germany, 1931–1939. By Neil Forbes. Foreword by, Richard Overy. London: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. xix+250. $59.50

Autor: Peter Howlett

Publikováno v: The Journal of Modern History. 75:209-211

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https://doi.org/10.1086/377790

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Resource Allocation in Wartime Britain: The Case of Steel, 1939-45

Autor: Peter Howlett

Publikováno v: Journal of Contemporary History. 29:523-544

The essential feature of the British economy in the second world war was that it was a centrally managed economy. Such an economy can only succeed if the state can adequately allocate resources to where they are needed. In order to understand and to

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https://doi.org/10.1177/002200949402900308

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How Well Do Facts Travel?

Autor: Peter Howlett, Mary S. Morgan

It is often assumed that a fact is a fact is a fact, yet those who work across disciplinary boundaries, or who package facts for travelling from their production to their place of use, are well aware that the life of a fact is not so simple. Is it th

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https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511762154.002

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