Chemistry, society and environment: a new history of the British Chemical industry

This book is the first to look critically at the whole development of industrial chemistry in the U.K. in the context of its effects on the environment.

Records of the British chemical industry. The shape of the British chemical industry. Origins of the British chemical industry. The alkali industry. The nitrogen industry. The British pharmaceutical industry. General and fine inorganic chemicals. The organic chemicals industry to word war I. The age of polymers and petrochemicals. Metal extraction and refining. Chemical industry and the quality of life.