Book Details

Frontline and Factory

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 978-1-4020-5490-7

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This book represents a first considered attempt to study the factors that conditioned industrial chemistry for war in1914-18. Taking a comparative perspective, it reflects on the experience of France, Germany, Austria, Russia, 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.


Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Chemical Industry / Disarmament / Europe / First World War / Great War / Industrial Chemistry / Russia / chemicals / mobilization /technology