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Frontline and Factory
. Ed(S): Macleod, Mr Roy M.; Johnson, Jeffrey Allan
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Hardback. The First World War is often called the 'chemists' war'. This book represents a first considered attempt to study the factors that conditioned industrial chemistry for war in 1914-18. It looks at changing patterns in the organisation of industry, and at the emerging symbiosis between science, industry and the military. Editor(s): MacLeod, Mr Roy M.; Johnson, Jeffrey Allan. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 279 pages, 10 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBWN; JWMC; KNDC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 597.
It has been said that history is a debate between the present and the past about the future. Nowhere are these lines drawn more significantly than in the study of science and war. And nowhere is the discourse more relevant, than in the study of science and technology as foundations and multipliers of military power. This book is concerned with one particularly seminal aspect of this development — the history of chemical munitions during and immediately after the First World War. The Great War, as it came to be known, was not the first industrial war, but it was the ... Read more
It has been said that history is a debate between the present and the past about the future. Nowhere are these lines drawn more significantly than in the study of science and war. And nowhere is the discourse more relevant, than in the study of science and technology as foundations and multipliers of military power. This book is concerned with one particularly seminal aspect of this development — the history of chemical munitions during and immediately after the First World War. The Great War, as it came to be known, was not the first industrial war, but it was the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
279
Condition
New
Series
Archimedes
Number of Pages
279
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402054891
SKU
V9781402054891
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99-15
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