DDT and the American Century : Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kinkela, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Insect pests > Control.
DDT (Insecticide) > Environmental aspects.
DDT (Insecticide)
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Pest Control.
DDT (Insecticide) > Aspect de l'environnement.
Insectes nuisibles > Lutte contre > Histoire > 20e siecle.
DDT (Insecticide) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Insect pests > Control > History > 20th century.
DDT (Insecticide) > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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