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

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Kinkela, David

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TextSeries: Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, society, & the statePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0807869309
9780807869307
9781469602639
1469602636

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: How local politics shape federal policy.DDC classification:

632/.9517 23

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SB952.D2 K56 2011eb

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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.

Summary: 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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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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