Dr Christopher Miller

  • Lecturer in Global Economy (Economic & Social History)

telephone: 01413302786
email: Christopher.Miller@glasgow.ac.uk

Centre for Business History in Scotland, 221 Lilybank House, G12 8RT

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-4482

Biography

I am a historian of business-government relations in the twentieth century, particularly interested in wars, crises and technological development in Western Europe and America. I have mostly been working on the political economy of armaments manufacturing and related topics, though these interests are (slowly) broadening into other areas - such as pollution and the environment - in recent months and years. 

I was educated at the University of Oxford (Balliol College), and the University of Glasgow. I (re)joined Glasgow in 2016 after a predoctoral fellowship at Yale University, and a lectureship at the University of Tübingen in Germany. For six months in 2020 and 2021 I was a visiting Associate Professor within the University of Jyväskylä's Academy of Finland-funded Crises Research Centre.

Since 2018 I have been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. 

Publications

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Number of items: 16.

2023

Mackenzie, N. G. , Perchard, A., Miller, C. and Forbes, N. (Eds.) (2023) Varieties of Capitalism Over Time. Routledge. ISBN 9781032369839

2022

Mackenzie, N. , Perchard, A., Miller, C. and Forbes, N. (2022) Introduction: Varieties of Capitalism Over Time. In: Varieties of Capitalism Over Time. Routledge, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781032369839

2021

Mackenzie, N. G. , Perchard, A., Miller, C. and Forbes, N. (2021) Business-government relations and national economic models: a review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond. Business History, 63(8), pp. 1239-1252. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2021.1924687)

Miller, C. W. and Murphy, H. (2021) Price collusion, rationalisation and admiralty oversight in British shipbuilding: the case of the Warship Group, 1926-1945. International Journal of Maritime History, 33(3), pp. 561-576. (doi: 10.1177/08438714211037692)

Miller, C. W. (2021) Warships After London: The end of the treaty era in the five major fleets, 1930–1936. Mariner's Mirror, 107(2), pp. 249-250. (doi: 10.1080/00253359.2021.1903753)[Book Review]

Miller, C. W. (2021) The Clydeside Cabal: the influence of Lord Weir, Sir James Lithgow, and Sir Andrew Rae Duncan on naval and defence policy, around 1918-1940. Mariner's Mirror, 107(3), pp. 338-357. (doi: 10.1080/00253359.2021.1948182)

2020

Miller, C. (2020) Interwar pricefixing in naval shipbuilding. Navy Records Society, 4 Oct.

Heuser, B. , Harding, R. and Miller, C. (2020) COVID-19: Policy-Options, Effects and Resulting Scenarios. Other. Coriolis Technologies.

2019

Stokes, R. G. and Miller, C. W. (2019) Pollution and climate change. In: da Silva Lopes, T., Lubinski, C. and Tworek, H. J.S. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge. ISBN 9781138242654

2018

Miller, C. (2018) Planning and Profits: British Naval Armaments Manufacture and the Military Industrial Complex, 1918-1941. Series: Research in maritime history (53). Liverpool University Press: Liverpool. ISBN 9781786940667 (doi: 10.5949/liverpool/9781786940667.001.0001)

Miller, C. W. (2018) Review of: Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke and Jeffrey Gale Williamson, eds., The spread of modern industry to the periphery since 1871. Oxford, 2017. Economic History Review, 71(1), pp. 360-361. (doi: 10.1111/ehr.12685)[Book Review]

2017

Miller, C. W. (2017) Extraordinary Gentlemen: the Economic League, business networks, and organised labour in war planning and rearmament. Scottish Labour History, 52, pp. 120-151.

2016

Miller, C. (2016) British naval armaments, cartels, and defence planning between the world wars. Entreprises et histoire, 85(1), pp. 70-87.

Miller, C. W. (2016) Titipu on the Thames. In: Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. Scottish Opera, pp. 22-25.

Miller, C. (2016) Review of: Beaven, Brad: Visions of Empire. Patriotism, Popular Culture and the City, 1870–1939. Manchester 2012. H-Soz-u-Kult, [Book Review]

2012

Miller, C. W. (2012) Forward to obscurity? Another dimension to the decline of the radical left on 1930s Clydeside. Scottish Labour History, 47, pp. 91-109.

This list was generated on Wed Mar 22 14:17:47 2023 GMT.
Number of items: 16.

Articles

Mackenzie, N. G. , Perchard, A., Miller, C. and Forbes, N. (2021) Business-government relations and national economic models: a review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond. Business History, 63(8), pp. 1239-1252. (doi: 10.1080/00076791.2021.1924687)

Miller, C. W. and Murphy, H. (2021) Price collusion, rationalisation and admiralty oversight in British shipbuilding: the case of the Warship Group, 1926-1945. International Journal of Maritime History, 33(3), pp. 561-576. (doi: 10.1177/08438714211037692)

Miller, C. W. (2021) The Clydeside Cabal: the influence of Lord Weir, Sir James Lithgow, and Sir Andrew Rae Duncan on naval and defence policy, around 1918-1940. Mariner's Mirror, 107(3), pp. 338-357. (doi: 10.1080/00253359.2021.1948182)

Miller, C. (2020) Interwar pricefixing in naval shipbuilding. Navy Records Society, 4 Oct.

Miller, C. W. (2017) Extraordinary Gentlemen: the Economic League, business networks, and organised labour in war planning and rearmament. Scottish Labour History, 52, pp. 120-151.

Miller, C. (2016) British naval armaments, cartels, and defence planning between the world wars. Entreprises et histoire, 85(1), pp. 70-87.

Miller, C. W. (2012) Forward to obscurity? Another dimension to the decline of the radical left on 1930s Clydeside. Scottish Labour History, 47, pp. 91-109.

Books

Miller, C. (2018) Planning and Profits: British Naval Armaments Manufacture and the Military Industrial Complex, 1918-1941. Series: Research in maritime history (53). Liverpool University Press: Liverpool. ISBN 9781786940667 (doi: 10.5949/liverpool/9781786940667.001.0001)

Book Sections

Mackenzie, N. , Perchard, A., Miller, C. and Forbes, N. (2022) Introduction: Varieties of Capitalism Over Time. In: Varieties of Capitalism Over Time. Routledge, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781032369839

Stokes, R. G. and Miller, C. W. (2019) Pollution and climate change. In: da Silva Lopes, T., Lubinski, C. and Tworek, H. J.S. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge. ISBN 9781138242654

Miller, C. W. (2016) Titipu on the Thames. In: Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. Scottish Opera, pp. 22-25.

Book Reviews

Miller, C. W. (2021) Warships After London: The end of the treaty era in the five major fleets, 1930–1936. Mariner's Mirror, 107(2), pp. 249-250. (doi: 10.1080/00253359.2021.1903753)[Book Review]

Miller, C. W. (2018) Review of: Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke and Jeffrey Gale Williamson, eds., The spread of modern industry to the periphery since 1871. Oxford, 2017. Economic History Review, 71(1), pp. 360-361. (doi: 10.1111/ehr.12685)[Book Review]

Miller, C. (2016) Review of: Beaven, Brad: Visions of Empire. Patriotism, Popular Culture and the City, 1870–1939. Manchester 2012. H-Soz-u-Kult, [Book Review]

Edited Books

Mackenzie, N. G. , Perchard, A., Miller, C. and Forbes, N. (Eds.) (2023) Varieties of Capitalism Over Time. Routledge. ISBN 9781032369839

Research Reports or Papers

Heuser, B. , Harding, R. and Miller, C. (2020) COVID-19: Policy-Options, Effects and Resulting Scenarios. Other. Coriolis Technologies.

This list was generated on Wed Mar 22 14:17:47 2023 GMT.

Supervision

Macon Linton St Hilaire (Ph.D, 1st Supervisor - Lind Foundation Funding): 'A Spirit of Success? The Globalisation of Scotch Whisky, 1918-2018' [with Professor Niall MacKenzie, Adam Smith Business School]

Sascha Schuster (Ph.D, 2nd Supervisor): 'The linkages between military and business strategy in history' [with Professor Beatrice Heuser, Politics and IR]

Shoya Fugestu (Ph.D, dual Glasgow-Kyoto University progamme): 'Royal Navy and private manufacturer co-operation in shipbuilding in the Long Eighteenth Century'

Zheilang Shen (Ph.D, dual Glasgow-Nankai University programme): 'Pathways to Internationalisation for private Chinese firms since 1980'. 

  • Qi, Hebin
    The Political Economy of Energy Transition in the Germany and the United Kingdom, from 1990 to the Present

Teaching

Economies and Societies in WWII (Honours)

Researching Economic and Social History 1 & 2 (Honours)

Technnology Transfer in the Global Economy (PGT)

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy (PGT)

Globalisation in the Modern Economy (MSc International Political Economy, Glasgow-Nankai Joint Graduate School, China)

Various other core and team-taught modules at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels. 

Professional activities & recognition

Research fellowships

  • 2020 - 2021: Academy of Finland

Editorial boards

  • 2020: Mariner's Mirror
  • 2018: Business History
  • 2016: Scottish Labour History

Professional & learned societies

  • 2018: Fellow, Royal Historical Society