Geopolitics and the green revolution : wheat, genes, and the cold war / John H. Perkins.

By:

Perkins, John H [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 337 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1423759559
9781423759553
1602561575
9781602561571
0195355032
9780195355031
128045329X
9781280453298

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Geopolitics and the green revolution.DDC classification:

338.1/6 22

LOC classification:

SB191.W5 P42 1997eb

Other classification:

RB 10666
WG 9300

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Contents:

1. Political Ecology and the Yield Transformation -- 2. Wheat, People, and Plant Breeding -- 3. Wheat Breeding: Coalescence of a Modern Science, 1900-1959 -- 4. Plant Breeding in Its Institutional and Political Economic Setting, 1900-1940 -- 5. The Rockefeller Foundation in Mexico: The New International Politics of Plant Breeding, 1941-1945 -- 6. Hunger, Overpopulation, and National Security: A New Strategic Theory for Plant Breeding, 1945-1956 -- 7. Wheat Breeding and the Exercise of American Power, 1940-1970 -- 8. Wheat Breeding and the Consolidation of Indian Autonomy, 1940-1970 -- 9. Wheat Breeding and the Reconstruction of Postimperial Britain, 1935-1954 -- 10. Science and the Green Revolution, 1945-1975.

Summary: Perkins explores why four countries each sought to develop high yielding wheat production. National security concerns and management of foreign exchange were prime motivators of the new technologies, a relationship that has not been previously developed in studies of agricultural modernization.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-324) and index.

Perkins explores why four countries each sought to develop high yielding wheat production. National security concerns and management of foreign exchange were prime motivators of the new technologies, a relationship that has not been previously developed in studies of agricultural modernization.

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