Frontline and Factory. Comparative perspectives on the chemical industry at war, 1914-1924
Details:
- Author(s) MacLeod, Roy, & Jeffrey A Johnson (eds)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2006
- Pages 277pp; illus
- Publisher Springer
- Place Published Dordrecht
Topics:
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
13 collected scholarly essays dealing with multiple aspects of the impact of the chemical industry on the war and, to a lesser extent, of the war on the chemical industry, considered from the experience of protagonists - Britain, Germany, France, USA, Russia, Italy - although very few essays are directly comparative. Organised in three sections, viz: 1] Mobilisation and industrial policy; 2] Systems of innovation - allies and neutrals; 3] Science and industry at war - contrasting styles. For relevant chapters see individual BHE entries