DDT and the American century : global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the world

DDT and the American century : global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the world / David Kinkela.

The banning of DDT in the United States, spurred in part by the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's environmental classic Silent Spring, is generally regarded as a watershed moment and signal triumph for the American environmental movement. But in this tr.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kinkela, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Series:Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, society, & the state.
Subjects:
1900-1999
DDT (Insecticide) > History > 20th century.
Insect pests > Control > History > 20th century.
DDT (Insecticide) > Environmental aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Pest Control.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
DDT (Insecticide)
DDT (Insecticide) > Environmental aspects
Insect pests > Control
History
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Table of 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.

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