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  title info:
    title: Determinants in the Evolution of the European Chemical Industry, 1900-1939
    sub title: New Technologies, Political Frameworks, Markets and Companies
  name:
    name part: Travis, Anthony S.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Schröter, Harm G.
  name:
    name part: Homburg, Ernst.
  name:
    name part: Morris, Peter J. T.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 1998
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 395 pages)
  abstract: This volume represents the proceedings of the European Science Foundation History of Chemistry in Europe 1789-1939 conference held in Strasbourg in October 1996. Leading scholars investigate the ways in which the chemical industry developed throughout much of Europe prior to, and in some cases during, World War II. Emphasis is placed on fertiliser production, which stimulated research into electrochemical and high pressure processes and polymer chemistry. The main focus is on the interwar period, when political strategies for self-sufficiency dictated that innovations were to be based on the availability of raw materials, and the needs of new user industries. Commercial factors also played an important role, particularly the mergers which led to the formation of companies such as IG Farben and Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). Nevertheless, smaller and independent companies also produced many new products. While much of the European chemical industry was dependent on coal and coal tar products, there were strong moves towards the foundation of science-based biochemical industries. This book is unique in its close examination of technologies, particularly chemical engineering and the control of processes, research in industry, and countries that were not mentioned in previous literature. It is enhanced by contributions from specialists in business and engineering history, as well as by historians of chemistry and technology. Audience: This work will be of great value to historians of chemistry, business, engineering and technology.
  note: edited by Anthony S. Travis, Harm G. Schröter, Ernst Homburg, Peter J.T. Morris.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Economics
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Economics
    topic: Methodology
  classification: QD1-999
  classification: 540
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    title info:
      title: Chemists and chemistry ; 16
  identifier: 9789401712330 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401712336 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9789048149728
  identifier: 904814972X
  identifier: 9401712336
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    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 130321
    record change date: 20260422202138.5
    record identifier: in00003574534
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng