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Biography

Professor David Edgerton (Chemistry, 1977) graduated from St John’s in Chemistry and from Imperial College London in History. From 1984 he taught first the economics, and then the history of science and technology in the University of Manchester. In 1993 he became the founding director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College London (1993–2003) where he became Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology in 2002. He led the Centre to its new home in King’s College in 2013, where he is Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology and Professor of Modern British History. He also co-directed the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War.

Research Interests

Professor Edgerton has worked mainly in two areas, the history of science and technology and twentieth-century British history. Perhaps his best-known books are Warfare State: Britain 1920–1970 (Cambridge University Press, 2005), The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 (Profile 2007, 2019) and The

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David Edgerton

For the British historian of the same name, see David Edgerton (historian).

American entrepreneur; founder of Burger King

David Russell Edgerton Jr. (May 26, 1927 – April 3, 2018)^[1] was an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Burger King, in what would become the second-largest burger chain after McDonald's.^[2] After serving as a manager of another restaurant, Howard Johnson's, on March 1, 1954, he opened a franchise outlet of the restaurant chain Insta Burger King in Miami, Florida. On June 1 of the same year, he met fellow restaurateur James McLamore and the two founded the Burger King Corporation. After leaving Burger King, he went on to start Bodega, a steakhouse restaurant.^[3]

Early life

Edgerton was born the eldest of two children to David Edgerton Sr., an itinerant hotel operator, and Blanche Berger, a concert violinist.^{[citation needed]}

Career

After initially being interested in becoming a stage manager and serving a stint in the army, he curtailed that career to become a restaura

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Arbeitsvorhaben

A Global History of Production

My project, a global history of production since 1900, must seem to be both impossible and unnecessary. Surely, we have more than enough knowledge on the topic, so much indeed that it is impossible to synthesize it in a single volume. To the contrary, I argue that we do indeed believe this, but what we in fact have are trite exemplars of poorly specified theories. These are the vital but unexamined foundations of nearly every social scientific or humanistic account of the twentieth-century world. Examples might include the idea of the second and (to a lesser extent) subsequent industrial revolutions, or the invocation of the concept of Fordism or mass production. These ideas are so common and used with such authority that they seem to explain much, yet they (and others) are empirically and theoretically very deficient ideas. Of particular surprise is that Marxism, the production-based account par excellence, has produced no significant work on production since Capital, with the partial but important exception