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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

In recent years there has been a continuing effort to place the history of scientific activity in Europe firmly in the political, economic and social contexts in which ideas and institutions have developed. Hitherto, however, comparatively little attention has been paid to the development of scientific institutions in the European colonial empires, or to the role of scientific activity in the commercial exploitation, civil government, or political development of individual countries.