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      Ruins to Riches

      Raymond G. Stokes

      Between 1945 and 1960, Germany and Japan rocketed from crushing defeat to become two of the five largest economies in the world - positions they have maintained since. What accounts…

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      Divide and Prosper: The Heirs of I. G. Farben Under Allied Authority 1945-1951

      Raymond G. Stokes

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      Opting for Oil: The Political Economy of Technological Change in the West German Industry, 1945-1961

      Raymond G. Stokes (University of Glasgow)

      This book investigates the causes, course and consequences of the shift in West German chemical technology from a coal to a petroleum basis between 1945 and 1961. It explains how…

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      Opting for Oil: The Political Economy of Technological Change in the West German Industry, 1945-1961

      Raymond G. Stokes (University of Glasgow)

      An analysis of how the West German chemical industry regained and then retained a competitive position in world markets from 1945-1961.

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      The Thalidomide Catastrophe: How it happened, who was responsible and why the search for justice continues after more than six decades

      Martin Johnson,Raymond G. Stokes,Tobias Arndt

      This momentus book is the first comprehensive history of thalidomide. It demonstrates how many thousands of victims could have been spared very late in the day if Chemie Grunenthal had…

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      Building on Air: The International Industrial Gases Industry, 1886-2006

      Raymond G. Stokes (University of Glasgow),Ralf Banken (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt)

      The industrial gases industry originated in 1886, when a London-based company began producing high-purity oxygen. Focusing on the key firms that have shaped the evolution of this industry from its…

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      The Business of Waste: Great Britain and Germany, 1945 to the Present

      Raymond G. Stokes (University of Glasgow),Roman Koester (Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen),Stephen C. Sambrook (University of Glasgow)

      The advent of consumer societies in Britain and West Germany after 1945 led to mass ‘production’ of garbage. This book compares the social, cultural and economic fallout of the growing…

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      German Industry and Global Enterprise: BASF: The History of a Company

      Werner Abelshauser (Universitat Bielefeld, Germany),Wolfgang von Hippel (Universitat Mannheim, Germany),Jeffrey Allan Johnson (Villanova University, Pennsylvania),Raymond G. Stokes (University of Glasgow)

      The corporate history of BASF spans an era of German and international economic history that began with the rise of the ‘new industries’ as of the late nineteenth century and…

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      German Industry and Global Enterprise: BASF: The History of a Company

      Werner Abelshauser (Universitat Bielefeld, Germany),Wolfgang von Hippel (Universitat Mannheim, Germany),Jeffrey Allan Johnson (Villanova University, Pennsylvania),Raymond G. Stokes (University of Glasgow)

      The corporate history of BASF spans an era of German and international economic history that began with the rise of the ‘new industries’ as of the late nineteenth century and…

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      Science under Socialism: East Germany in Comparative Perspective

      Drawing on interviews with, among others, the legendary spy chief Markus Wolf and members of the East German Politburo, this text examines the role of science and technology in the…

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