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Title Frontline and factory : comparative perspectives on the chemical industry at war, 1914-1924 / edited by Roy MacLeod and Jeffrey Allan Johnson
Published Dordrecht : Springer, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 277 pages) : illustrations
Series Archimedes ; v. 16
Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 16.
Contents Technological mobilization and munitions production : comparative perspectives on Germany and Austria / Jeffrey Allan Johnson -- Mobilization and industrial policy : chemicals and pharmaceuticals in the French war effort / Sophie Chauveau -- First World War explosives manufacture : the British experience / Wayne D. Cocroft -- Transforming a village into an industrial town : the Royal Prussian powder plant in Kirchmöser (Brandenburg) / Sebastian Kinder -- Wartime chemistry in Italy : industry, the military, and the professors / Giuliano Pancaldi -- Munitions, the military, and chemistry in Russia / Nathan M. Brooks -- Technical expertise and U.S. mobilization, 1917-18 : high explosives and war gases / Kathryn Steen -- Operating on several fronts : the trans-national activities of Royal Dutch/Shell, 1914-1918 / Ernst Homburg -- Kuhlmann at war, 1914-1924 / Erik Langlinay -- Organizing for total war : DuPont and smokeless powder in World War I / John Kenly Smith, Jr. -- Science and the military : the Kaiser Wilhelm Foundation for Military-Technical Science / Manfred Rasch -- Managing chemical expertise : the laboratories of the French artillery and the Service des Poudres / Patrice Bret -- The war the victors lost : the dilemmas of chemical disarmament, 1919-1926 / Jeffrey Allan Johnson and Roy MacLeod
Summary "This book represents a first considered attempt to study the factors that conditioned industrial chemistry for war in 1914-18. Taking a comparative perspective, it reflects on the experience of France, Germany, Austria, Britain, Italy, and Russia, and points to significant similarities and differences. It looks at changing patterns in the organisation of industry, and at the emerging symbiosis between science, industry and the military, which contributed to the first 'academic-military-industrial' complex of the 20th century. At the same time, it reflects on the world's first, and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to monitor 'dual-use' chemical technologies, and so restrict the proliferation of an important category of weapons of mass destruction."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Chemical industry -- Military aspects -- Congresses
Weapons industry -- Congresses
World War, 1914-1918 -- Chemical warfare -- Congresses
Industrial mobilization -- Congresses
Explosives, Military -- Congresses
Chemical industry -- Military aspects.
Weapons industry.
World War, 1914-1918.
Industrial mobilization.
Explosives, Military.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Chemical warfare.
Industrial mobilization.
Explosives, Military.
Chemische industrie.
Eerste Wereldoorlog.
Chemical industry -- Military aspects.
Weapons industry.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Chemical industry -- Military aspects
Chemical warfare
Explosives, Military
Industrial mobilization
Weapons industry
Chemische industrie.
Eerste Wereldoorlog.
Europa (geografie)
Europa (geografie)
Genre/Form Electronic books
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Johnson, Jeffrey Allan.
MacLeod, Roy M
ISBN 9781402054891
1402054890
9781402054907
1402054904