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.

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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

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