Article: Textile business in Europe during the First World War: the linen industry, 1914-18.

The war in Europe between 1914 and 1918 has generated relatively few case studies from business historians writing in the English language. This is rather surprising since the unexpected length and cost of the conflict, unparalleled state intervention, massive disruption to normal trade and financial arrangements all had implications for manufacturers and merchants in both belligerent and neutral countries. Twenty years ago, in what remains the best economic history of the conflict, Gerd Hardach noted that even well-known texts such as those of William Ashworth and David Landes often 'bypassed' the period 1914-18.(1) Since Hardach wrote, there have, of course, been a ...

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