{"product_id":"9781784972363-what-we-have-lost","title":"What We Have Lost","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Dismantling of Great Britain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Hamilton-Paterson turns his literary and analytical skills to the wider picture of Britain's lost industrial and technological civilisation. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Exquisitely written and ripe with detail'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An engaging book. He knows his British stuff'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of England's most skilled and alluring prose writers in or out of fiction, has done something even more original'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWHAT WE HAVE LOST\u003c\/i\u003e IS A MISSILE AIMED AT THE \u003cbr\u003eBRITISH ESTABLISHMENT, A BLISTERING INDICTMENT \u003cbr\u003eOF POLITICIANS AND CIVIL SERVANTS, PLANNING \u003cbr\u003eAUTHORITIES AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, WHO HAVE \u003cbr\u003ePRESIDED, SINCE 1945, OVER THE DECLINE OF BRITAIN'S \u003cbr\u003eINDUSTRIES AND REPLACED THE 'GREAT' IN BRITAIN WITH \u003cbr\u003eA FOR SALE SIGN HUNG AROUND THE NECK OF THE NATION. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween 1939 and 1945, Britain produced around 125,000 aircraft, and enormous numbers of ships, motor vehicles, armaments and textiles. We developed radar, antibiotics, the jet engine and the computer. Less than seventy years later, the major industries that had made Britain a global industrial power, and employed millions of people, were dead. Had they really been doomed, and if so, by what? Can our politicians have been so inept? Was it down to the superior competition of wily foreigners? Or were our rulers culturally too hostile to science and industry? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Hamilton-Paterson, in this evocation of the industrial world we have lost, analyzes the factors that turned us so quickly from a nation of active producers to one of passive consumers and financial middlemen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56450696315254,"sku":"9781784972363","price":8.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28007994.jpg?v=1760453819","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781784972363-what-we-have-lost","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}