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DDT and the American century : global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the world / David Kinkela.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kinkela, David.
- Series:
- Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, society, & the state
- The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the state
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- DDT (Insecticide)--History--20th century.
- DDT (Insecticide).
- Insect pests--Control--History--20th century.
- Insect pests.
- DDT (Insecticide)--Environmental aspects.
- Insect pests--Control.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- DDT and the American Century
- An island in a sea of disease: DDT enters a global war
- Disease, DDT, and development: the American Century in Italy
- Science in the service of agriculture: DDT and the beginning of the green revolution in Mexico
- The age of wreckers and exterminators: eradication in the postwar world
- Green revolutions in conflict: debating Silent spring, food, and science during the Cold War
- It's all or nothing: debating DDT and development under the law
- One man's pesticide is another man's poison: the controversy continues
- Rethinking DDT in a global age.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807835098
- 0807835099
- OCLC:
- 711043279
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