Professor Duncan Ross

  • Professor (Political & International Studies)
  • Dean of Learning and Teaching and Deputy Head of College (Social Sciences College Senior Management)

telephone: 01413303586
email: Duncan.Ross@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 212, Lilybank House, Glasgow, G12 8RT

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8290-9821

Research interests

Research Interests

  • Scottish economic history in the twentieth century
  • Multinationals and the impact of FDI in Scotland since 1945
  • Banking and finance in twentieth century Britain
  • Savings banks in Scotland since 1835

Learned Societies

Research Contribution

Research groups

  • Economic & Social History

Publications

List by: Type | Date

Jump to: 2014 | 2013 | 2011 | 2009 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001
Number of items: 15.

2014

Ikonen, V. and Ross, D. (Eds.) (2014) The Critical Function of History and Banking in Finance. Series: Studies in Banking and Financial History. European Association for Banking and Financial History: Frankfurt am Main, Germany. ISBN 9783980805063

Ross, D. M. (2014) Introduction. In: Ikonen, V. and Ross, D. (eds.) The Critical Function of History and Banking in Finance. Series: Studies in banking and financial history. European Association for Banking and Financial History: Frankfurt am Main, pp. 9-12. ISBN 9783980805063

Young, S., Ross, D. and MacKay, B. (2014) Inward foreign direct investment and constitutional change in Scotland. Multinational Business Review, 22(2), pp. 118-138. (doi: 10.1108/MBR-04-2014-0016)

2013

Ross, D. (2013) Savings bank depositors in a crisis: Glasgow 1847 and 1857. Financial History Review, 20(02), pp. 183-208. (doi: 10.1017/S0968565013000103)

2011

Munro, A. and Ross, D.M. (2011) Contested energy: a long-term perspective on opposition to renewable power developments in Scotland. Scottish Affairs, 75(1), pp. 37-61.

2009

Dimitratos, P., Liouka, I., Ross, D. and Young, S. (2009) The multinational enterprise and subsidiary evolution: Scotland since 1945. Business History, 51(3), pp. 401-425. (doi: 10.1080/00076790902844013)

2007

Ross, D. (2007) Diminishing dividend: the Union and the economy. In: Brown, R. (ed.) Nation in a State: Independent Perspectives on Scottish Independence. Ten Book Press: Dunfermline.

2006

Ross, D. (2006) Erhevershistorie I Storbritannien. Statens Arkiver: Copenhagen.

2005

Ross, D. (2005) Pobreza y cajas de ahorros en Escocia a mediados del siglo XIX. Papeles de Economia Espanola, 105/10, pp. 82-92.

2004

Ross, D. (2004) Domestic monetary policy and the banking system in Britain 1945-1971. In: Michie, R. and Williamson, P. (eds.) The British government and the City of London in the twentieth century. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780521827690

Ross, D. (2004) Industrial and commercial finance in the interwar years. In: Floud, R. and Johnson, P.A. (eds.) Economic Maturity, 1860-1939. Series: Cambridge economic history of modern Britain, 2. Cambridge University Press, pp. 403-27. ISBN 9780521820370 (doi: 10.1017/CHOL9780521820370.016)

2003

Ross, D. (2003) La politique monétaire nationale et le système bancaire en Grande-Bretagne, 1945-1971. In: Feiertag, O. and Margairaz, M. (eds.) Mission Historique de la Banque de France, Politiques et Pratiques des Banques d'Emmission en Europe (XVII -XX siècle): Le Bicentenaire de la Banque de France dans le perspective dans l'identité monétaire européenne. Albin Michel: Paris. ISBN 9782226137692

2002

Ross, D. (2002) 'Penny banks' in Glasgow, 1850-1914. Financial History Review, 9(1), pp. 21-39. (doi: 10.1017/S0968565002000021)

Ross, D. (2002) Clubs and consortia: European banking groups as strategic alliances. In: Battilossi, S. and Cassis, Y. (eds.) European banks and the American challenge : competition and cooperation in international banking under Bretton Woods. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 135-160. ISBN 9780199250271

2001

Ross, D. (2001) Between philanthropy and entrepreneurship: two Scottish savings banks in the early nineteenth century. In: Henrekson, M., Larsson, M. and Sjögren, H. (eds.) Entrepreneurship in Business and Research: Essays in Honour of Hakan Lindgren. Institute for Research in Economic History: Stockholm. ISBN 9789187184703

This list was generated on Mon Jan 20 18:11:58 2025 GMT.
Jump to: Articles | Books | Book Sections | Edited Books
Number of items: 15.

Articles

Young, S., Ross, D. and MacKay, B. (2014) Inward foreign direct investment and constitutional change in Scotland. Multinational Business Review, 22(2), pp. 118-138. (doi: 10.1108/MBR-04-2014-0016)

Ross, D. (2013) Savings bank depositors in a crisis: Glasgow 1847 and 1857. Financial History Review, 20(02), pp. 183-208. (doi: 10.1017/S0968565013000103)

Munro, A. and Ross, D.M. (2011) Contested energy: a long-term perspective on opposition to renewable power developments in Scotland. Scottish Affairs, 75(1), pp. 37-61.

Dimitratos, P., Liouka, I., Ross, D. and Young, S. (2009) The multinational enterprise and subsidiary evolution: Scotland since 1945. Business History, 51(3), pp. 401-425. (doi: 10.1080/00076790902844013)

Ross, D. (2005) Pobreza y cajas de ahorros en Escocia a mediados del siglo XIX. Papeles de Economia Espanola, 105/10, pp. 82-92.

Ross, D. (2002) 'Penny banks' in Glasgow, 1850-1914. Financial History Review, 9(1), pp. 21-39. (doi: 10.1017/S0968565002000021)

Books

Ross, D. (2006) Erhevershistorie I Storbritannien. Statens Arkiver: Copenhagen.

Book Sections

Ross, D. M. (2014) Introduction. In: Ikonen, V. and Ross, D. (eds.) The Critical Function of History and Banking in Finance. Series: Studies in banking and financial history. European Association for Banking and Financial History: Frankfurt am Main, pp. 9-12. ISBN 9783980805063

Ross, D. (2007) Diminishing dividend: the Union and the economy. In: Brown, R. (ed.) Nation in a State: Independent Perspectives on Scottish Independence. Ten Book Press: Dunfermline.

Ross, D. (2004) Domestic monetary policy and the banking system in Britain 1945-1971. In: Michie, R. and Williamson, P. (eds.) The British government and the City of London in the twentieth century. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780521827690

Ross, D. (2004) Industrial and commercial finance in the interwar years. In: Floud, R. and Johnson, P.A. (eds.) Economic Maturity, 1860-1939. Series: Cambridge economic history of modern Britain, 2. Cambridge University Press, pp. 403-27. ISBN 9780521820370 (doi: 10.1017/CHOL9780521820370.016)

Ross, D. (2003) La politique monétaire nationale et le système bancaire en Grande-Bretagne, 1945-1971. In: Feiertag, O. and Margairaz, M. (eds.) Mission Historique de la Banque de France, Politiques et Pratiques des Banques d'Emmission en Europe (XVII -XX siècle): Le Bicentenaire de la Banque de France dans le perspective dans l'identité monétaire européenne. Albin Michel: Paris. ISBN 9782226137692

Ross, D. (2002) Clubs and consortia: European banking groups as strategic alliances. In: Battilossi, S. and Cassis, Y. (eds.) European banks and the American challenge : competition and cooperation in international banking under Bretton Woods. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 135-160. ISBN 9780199250271

Ross, D. (2001) Between philanthropy and entrepreneurship: two Scottish savings banks in the early nineteenth century. In: Henrekson, M., Larsson, M. and Sjögren, H. (eds.) Entrepreneurship in Business and Research: Essays in Honour of Hakan Lindgren. Institute for Research in Economic History: Stockholm. ISBN 9789187184703

Edited Books

Ikonen, V. and Ross, D. (Eds.) (2014) The Critical Function of History and Banking in Finance. Series: Studies in Banking and Financial History. European Association for Banking and Financial History: Frankfurt am Main, Germany. ISBN 9783980805063

This list was generated on Mon Jan 20 18:11:58 2025 GMT.

Supervision

Current Research Students

Michael MacDonald

Angus Mackenzie

 

Recent PhD Students

Alison Gilmour

Examining the ‘hard-boiled bunch’: work culture and industrial relations at the Linwood car plant, c. 1963-1981 (2010)

Leigh Merrick:

Local Authorities and the Development of the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland, 1939 to 1974 (2009)

Duncan Connors:

The rôle of government in the decline of the British shipbuilding industry, 1945 - 1980 (2009)

Niall MacKenzie:

Chucking buns across the fence? Governmental planning and regeneration projects in the Scottish Highland economy, 1945-82. (2008)

Yukihisa Kumagai

The lobbying activities of provincial mercantile and manufacturing interests against the renewal of the East India Company’s charter, 1812-1813 and 1829-1833 (2008)

 

Teaching

Honours

  • Scotland Since 1914
  • Banking and Financial History Since 1844

MSc

  • The Globalised Economy
  • Business in the Global Economy
  • Scotland Since 1918
  • Financial History
  • Globalisation of Banking and Financial Institutions

Convenor, Erasmus Mundus International Master 'Global Markets, Local Creativities' (GLOCAL)

 

Additional information

Forthcoming and Recent Conference Papers


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