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Building in Britain: The Origins of a Modern Industry

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Business historians have produced several studies of individual builders but the construction industry has not until now been the subject of a wide ranging and synoptic study. This book helps to fill that gap. It is a re-examination of the history of the building industry from the end of the eighteenth century to the latter half of the nineteenth. The first part looks at the rise of general contracting as a system of building procurement, emphasising the complexity of that development and the persistence of other modes of ...

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Building in Britain: The Origins of a Modern Industry 1995, Routledge, Aldershot, England

ISBN-13: 9781859280843

Hardcover