First the seed : the political economy of plant biotechnology, 1492-2000 / Jack Ralph Kloppenburg, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kloppenburg, Jack Ralph.

Series:

Science and technology in society.

Science and technology in society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seed industry and trade--United States.

Seed industry and trade.

Plant breeding--United States.

Plant breeding.

Plant biotechnology--United States.

Plant biotechnology.

Physical Description:

xxii, 425 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First the Seed spotlights the history of plant breeding and shows how efforts to control the seed have shaped the emergence of the agricultural biotechnology industry. This second edition of a classic work in the political economy of science includes an extensive, new chapter updating the analysis to include the most recent developments in the struggle over the direction of crop genetic engineering.1988 Cloth, 1990 Paperback, Cambridge University Press Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Agricultural History Society Winner of the Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological Association

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of tables

List of figures

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the first edition

Acknowledgments

Lists of abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. Science, agriculture, and social change

3. The genetic foundation of American agriculture

4. Public science ascendant: plant breeding comes of age

5. Heterosis and the social division of labor

6. Plant breeders' rights and the social division of labor: historical perspective

7. Seeds of struggle

plant genetic resources in the world system

8. Outdoing evolution: biotechnology, botany, and business

9. Directions for deployment

10. Conclusion

11. Still the seed: plant biotechnology in the twenty-first century

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-419) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-26940-2

9786612269400

0-299-19243-1

OCLC:

290523610

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06255 hdl