Main Title |
DDT and the American century : global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the world / |
Author |
Kinkela, David.
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Publisher |
University of North Carolina Press, |
Year Published |
2011 |
OCLC Number |
711043279 |
ISBN |
9780807835098 (cloth : alk. paper); 0807835099 (cloth : alk. paper); 9781469609775; 1469609770 |
Subjects |
DDT (Insecticide)--History--20th century ;
Insect pests--Control--History--20th century ;
DDT (Insecticide)--Environmental aspects ;
DDT--history ;
Environmental Exposure--history ;
Global Health ;
Insect Control--history ;
United States ;
DDT--historia--miljèoaspekter--1900-talet ;
Bekämpningsmedel--historia--1900-talet
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Internet Access |
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EKBM |
SB952.D2K56 2011 |
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Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC |
08/06/2012 |
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Collation |
xiv, 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-248) and index. |
Contents Notes |
In DDT and the American Century, David 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. The banning of DDT in the United States in 1972 is generally regarded as a signal triumph for the American environmental movement. Yet DDT's function as a tool of U.S. foreign policy and its use in international development projects designed to solve problems of disease and famine made it an integral component of the so-called American Century.--[book cover] 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. |
Place Published |
Chapel Hill |
Title Ser Add Ent |
Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, society, & the state. |
PUB Date Free Form |
c2011 |
Series Title Untraced |
The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the state |
BIB Level |
m |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
LCCN |
2011015416 |
Merged OCLC records |
779387392 |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20120731162411 |
Language |
eng |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
CAT |
OCLC Rec Leader |
02935cam 2200433 a 45020 |