The British Government and the Oil Companies 1912–1924

The Search for an Oil Policy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8955845
AutoresGeoffrey Jones (Corpus Christi College, autor de correspondencia), G Gareth Jones
Año1977
Volumen20
Número3
Páginas647-672
Fecha de publicación1977-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Historical Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0018246x00011286
OpenAlexW2014489266
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas13

The overwhelming majority of studies of the relationship between the British government and private industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are, in reality, merely studies of the government's policy towards industry. The attitude of private industry towards the government has been almost entirely neglected, and this has inevitably led to a distorted understanding of the relationship as a whole. It is, for example, hardly ever made explicit in the extensive literature on the growth of state intervention in the British economy that in the decades before 1914 the assault on laissez-faire was pardy led by private industry itself. This development was most noticeable overseas, where the British government became involved in commerce and trade largely in response to requests for diplomatic support from British firms faced with growing competition from continental and American commercial interests, often supported by their respective governments

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