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in the cork business: raw cork, corkwood in planks and stoppers of natural cork. Given that prices of these products are … not available, the data bases for reconstruction are, on one hand, unitary values of production and exports from Portugal … and Spain and, on the other hand, unitary ones of United Kingdom’s imports. By using these values, selected after …
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During the second half of the twentieth century, the Spanish cork industry lost its hegemonic position to Portugal in … industrial cork district of Aveiro (Santa Maria da Feira) in the north of Portugal. It was there that the growth of the … the world market of manufactured cork. In this work we intend to demonstrate that one of the most important explanations …
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Greek Abstract: Όπως ο ιστορικός χρόνος εμφανίζεται με πολλαπλές ταχύτητες στα διάφορα πεδία, έτσι και ο ιστορικός τόπος αποκτά διαφορετική σημασία στην εναλλαγή των...
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Historians have long recognized the role of economic resources and organization in determining the outcome of World War II: the Nazi economy lacked the economic resources and organization to oppose the combined might of the U.S., U.K., and U.S.S.R. A minority view is that the Germans were...
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Este trabajo tiene como objeto realizar un primer diagnóstico del comportamiento de las cooperativas españolas desde mediados del siglo XX hasta los primeros años de la actual centuria. Muestra cómo reaccionaron las cooperativas ante las trasformaciones estructurales de la economía...
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This article seeks to explain why Spanish merino wools arrived so late in the Low Countries, only from the 1420s, why initially only those cloth producers known as the 'nouvelles draperies' chose to use them, and why their resort to such merino wools allowed at least some of them to escape the...
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The coal and steel production was key in the post-war rebuilding of the European economy. However, after WWII, Germany still had the technological knowledge and experience to quickly regain its pre-war position as the dominant economic force in Europe. In response to this ‘problem', the...
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After a brief respite during the 1940s the secular decline of the British cotton industry resumed its course. This article seeks, by the application of an accounting procedure, to estimate the relative contributions of falling exports, rising imports, dwindling home demand, and increasing labour...
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In this paper I suggest that, in the period from 1945 to 1965, the owners and mangers of the British cotton industry had little confidence in their ability to meet the challenge of overseas competition, without the assistance of a substantial measure of protection for domestic and colonial...
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This paper examines the relationship between the government and the cotton industry in Britain during the 1940s. It argues that governmental attempts to change the structure of the industry and stimulate investment failed because Lancashire had no confidence in its ability to face low wage...
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