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Author Kinkela, David.
Title DDT and the American century : global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the world / David Kinkela.
Publication Info Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.


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Descript xiv, 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
ISBN 9781469609775 (pbk)
9780807835098 (hbk.)
0807835099 (hbk.)
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Author Kinkela, David.
Series Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, society, & the state
Subject DDT (Insecticide) -- History -- 20th century.
Insect pests -- Control -- History -- 20th century.
DDT (Insecticide) -- Environmental aspects.
Descript xiv, 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
ISBN 9781469609775 (pbk)
9780807835098 (hbk.)
0807835099 (hbk.)
Author Kinkela, David.
Series Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, society, & the state
Subject DDT (Insecticide) -- History -- 20th century.
Insect pests -- Control -- History -- 20th century.
DDT (Insecticide) -- Environmental aspects.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 3rd Floor  SB 952 D2 K5  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject DDT (Insecticide) -- History -- 20th century.
Insect pests -- Control -- History -- 20th century.
DDT (Insecticide) -- Environmental aspects.
Descript xiv, 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
ISBN 9781469609775 (pbk)
9780807835098 (hbk.)
0807835099 (hbk.)
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