A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Modern Age
Peter J. T. Morris, "A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Modern Age "
English | ISBN: 1474294812 | 2023 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 13 MB
English | ISBN: 1474294812 | 2023 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 13 MB
A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Modern Age covers the period from 1914 to the present. The impact of chemistry and the chemical industry on science, war, society, and the economy has made this era the “Chemical Age”. Having prospered in the West, chemical science spread across the globe and slowly became more diversified in terms of its ethnic and gendered mix. After flourishing for sixty years, the chemical industry was impacted by the Oil Crisis of the 1970s and became almost invisible in the West. While the industry has clearly delivered many benefits to society-such as new materials and better drugs-it has been excoriated by critics for its impact on the environment.
The six-volume set of the Cultural History of Chemistry
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