DDT and the American Century : Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World.
Material type: TextSeries: The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. Series on Business, Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy SerPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780807869307Subject(s): DDT (Insecticide) -- Environmental aspects | DDT (Insecticide) -- History -- 20th century | Insect pests -- Control -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: DDT and the American Century : Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the WorldDDC classification: 632/.9517 LOC classification: SB952.D2 -- K56 2011ebOnline resources: Click to ViewCover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: DDT and the American Century -- ONE: An Island in a Sea of Disease: DDT Enters a Global War -- TWO: Disease, DDT, and Development: The American Century in Italy -- THREE: Science in the Service of Agriculture: DDT and the Beginning of the Green Revolution in Mexico -- FOUR: The Age of Wreckers and Exterminators: Eradication in the Postwar World -- FIVE: Green Revolutions in Conflict: Debating Silent Spring, Food, and Science during the Cold War -- SIX: It's All or Nothing: Debating DDT and Development under the Law -- SEVEN: One Man's Pesticide Is Another Man's Poison: The Controversy Continues -- EPILOGUE: Rethinking DDT in a Global Age -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Praised for its ability to kill insects effectively and cheaply and reviled as an ecological hazard, DDT continues to engender passion across the political spectrum as one of the world's most controversial chemical pesticides. Kinkela chronicles the use of DDT around the world from 1941 to the present with a particular focus on the United States, which has played a critical role in encouraging the global use of the pesticide.
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