Growing American rubber : strategic plants and the politics of national security /

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'Growing American Rubber' explores America's quest during tense decades of the 20th century to identify a viable source of domestic rubber. Straddling international revolutions and world wars, this history chronicles efforts of leaders in business, science, and government to sever Ame...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Finlay, Mark R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009.
Series:Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment.
Subjects:
Rubber industry and trade > United States > History.
Rubber plants > Research > United States.
Rubber.
Rubber
Caoutchouc > Industrie > États-Unis > Histoire.
Plantes à caoutchouc > Recherche > États-Unis.
Caoutchouc.
rubber (material)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > Crop Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > History.
Rubber industry and trade
Rubber plants > Research
Gummiindustrie
Gummimarkt
Gummiherstellung
United States
USA
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The American dependence on imported rubber : the lessons of revolution and war, 1911-1922
  • Domestic rubber crops in an era of nationalism and internationalism
  • Thomas Edison and the challenges of the new rubber crops
  • The nadir of rubber crop research, 1928-1941
  • Crops in war : rubber plant research on the grand scale
  • Sustainable rubber from grain : the Gillette Committee and the battles over synthetic rubber
  • Resistance to domestic rubber crops and the decline of the Emergency Rubber Project
  • From domestic rubber crops to biotechnology.

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