Kees Gispen

Poems in Steel

National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The role of National Socialism in the development of German society remains a central question of historical inquiry. This study presents original answers by examining the politics of inventing, a crucial but long ignored problem at the intersection of the history of technology, legal, political, and business history. The analysis of conflicts over the rights of inventors and the meaning of inventing from the 1920s to the 1950s reveals a deep chasm, reaching back to the late nineteenth century, between the forces of capital and big business on one hand and the exponents of intellectual capital - inventors, engineers, industrial scientists - on the other.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9781571812421
• ISBN-10: 1571812423
• Artikelnr.: 44841529

Autorenporträt

Kees Gispen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of New Profession, Old Order: Engineers in German Society, 1815-1914 (1989) and many articles on the relationship between technology and society on modern Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Tables and Figures
Abbreviations
Epigraph
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I
Chapter 1. The Inventor in German Law and History: A Comparative
Perspective
PART II
Chapter 2. Charting Survival: The Chemists' Contract of 1920
Chapter 3. Struggles and Setbacks, 1920-1924
Chapter 4. Compromise Found and Lost, 1925-1929
Chapter 5. Rationalization, National Socialism, and Inventors at IG Farben,
1925-1933
Chapter 6. The Great Depression and the Origins of Nazi Patent Reform,
1928-1932
PART III
Chapter 7. Heinrich Jebens and the Reich Inventor Office
Chapter 8. Nazi Revolution: The 1936 Patent Code
Chapter 9. Inventor Trusteeship in the Making, 1936-1940
Chapter 10. Inventor Trusteeship and the "Production Miracle", 1941-1944
Chapter 11. German Technological Culture and the Inventor Ordinances of
1942 and 1943
Chapter 12. "Appropriate Compensation"
PART V
Chapter 13. The Politics of Inventing after 1945
Works Cited
Index