Book ID: CBB000110574

The German Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century (2000)

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Lesch, John E. (Editor)


Kluwer Academic


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: viii + 472 pp., illus., figs., tables, index
Language: English

Description Contents: Preface; J. E. Lesch, Introduction; P. Hayes, I. G. Farben revisited: Industry and ideology ten years later. Part I: J. A. Johnson, The academic-industrial symbiosis in German chemical research, 1905-1939; D. Stoltzenberg, Scientist and industindustrial manager: Emil Fischer and Carl Duisberg; M. Szöllösi-Janze, Losing the war but gaining ground: The German chemical industry during World War I; P. Löhnert, M. Gill, The relationship of I.G. Farben's Agfa Filmfabrik Wolfen to its Jewish scientists and scientists married to Jews, 1933-1939; A. N. Stranges, Germany's synthetic fuel industry, 1930-1945. Part II: U. Marsch, Business strategies and research organization in the German chemical industry and its role as exemplar for other industries in Germany and Britain; A. Kudo, Dominance through cooperation: I. G. Farben's Japan strategy; M. Wilkins, German chemical firms in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the post-World War II period; K. Steen, German chemicals and American politics, 1919-1922. Part III: J. Wiesen, The Richard Willstätter controversy: The legacy of anti-Semitism in the West German chemical industry; R. Karlsch, Capacity losses, reconstruction, and unfinished modernization: The chemical industry in the Soviet Zone of Occupation (SBZ/GDR, 1945-1965); A. Arora, A. Gambardella, The dynamics of industry structure: The chemical industry in the U.S., Western Europe, and Japan in the 1980s; R. Stokes, Gravity and the Rainbow-makers: Some thoughts on the trajectory of the German chemical industry in the twentieth century.


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Authors & Contributors
O'Reagan, Douglas Michael
Horrocks, Sally M.
Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Plumpe, Werner
Peter B. Thompson
Berghoff, Hartmut
Concepts
World War II
Chemistry
Industrial chemistry
Science and war; science and the military
Science and politics
Science and industry
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
Places
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Italy
France
Institutions
Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft (I. G. Farben)
Badische Anilin- und Soda- Fabrik (B.A.S.F.)
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten
United States Navy
Science Museum, London
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