Overview
- The first comparative study of the mobilisation of the international chemical industry for war, 1914-18
- The first study to show the ‘chemists’ war’ as a war not only waged with chemical weapons, but also driven with the full force of international chemistry
- A challenging essay in industrial and technological history, to be read alongside more conventional accounts of military campaigns and wartime developments in the political, economic and social spheres
Part of the book series: Archimedes (ARIM, volume 16)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Frontline and Factory
Book Subtitle: Comparative Perspectives on the Chemical Industry at War, 1914-1924
Editors: Roy Macleod, Jeffrey Allan Johnson
Series Title: Archimedes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5490-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5489-1Published: 28 February 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9096-4Published: 21 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5490-7Published: 06 May 2007
Series ISSN: 1385-0180
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0064
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 279
Topics: History of Science, Political Science, History, general, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Political Economy/Economic Systems, Operations Management