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UNINA9910457939303321 |
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Autore |
Kinkela David |
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Titolo |
DDT and the American Century : Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World / / David Kinkela |
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Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2011 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017 |
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©2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0263-6 |
0-8078-6930-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (497 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the state |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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DDT (Insecticide) - Environmental aspects |
Insect pests - Control - History - 20th century |
DDT (Insecticide) - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-248) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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