The Rise and Fall of Imperial Chemical Industries: Synthetics, Sensism and the Environment

by Esther Leslie

This book provides a history of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), a large Britain- based chemical firm which was a major industrial player in the twentieth century. Once a model for Britain's industrial reach and dominance, ICI collapsed in the mid-2000s, with some still profitable elements sold off to other chemical firms. The book focuses on the firm's origin site in the Northeast of England, around Middlesbrough, engaging the remnants of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031374312
• ISBN13: 9783031374319
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"