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German industry and global enterprise: BASF, the history of a company, by Werner Abelshauser (et al.) [review]
journal contribution
posted on 2014-08-05, 08:56 authored by Jeremy LeamanThis study of the history of BASF, one of the renowned trio of outstanding
German chemical companies, is without doubt a major achievement on the
part of the team of four economic historians, assembled by Werner
Abelshauser. It will be of considerable interest to students of chemistry,
business and economic history and politics alike. There are perceptible faults
in its narrative, some of them clearly determined by the fact that the research
project was funded by BASF itself, but it would be entirely wrong to dismiss
the four contributions as hagiography. Even within a perspectivistic account
which relies heavily on BASF archive material, the story that emerges from
this volume is both scholarly and compelling, exposing the extensive detail of
primary sources to further interpretation by informed and lay readers alike.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Politics and International Studies
Published in
BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEWVolume
79Issue
2Pages
449 - 451 (3)Citation
LEAMAN, J., 2005. German industry and global enterprise: BASF, the history of a company, by Werner Abelshauser (et al.) [review]. Business History Review, 79 (2), pp. 449-451.Publisher
Cambridge University Press (© The President and Fellows of Harvard College)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2005Notes
This article has been accepted for publication and has appeared in a revised form, subsequent to peer review and/or editorial input by Cambridge University Press, in Business History Review published by Cambridge University Press.ISSN
0007-6805eISSN
2044-768XPublisher version
Language
- en