03340oam 22006254a 450 991045793930332120200305025749.01-4696-0263-60-8078-6930-9(CKB)2550000000064952(EBL)797767(OCoLC)761284042(SSID)ssj0000535700(PQKBManifestationID)11354892(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535700(PQKBWorkID)10547122(PQKB)11521447(MiAaPQ)EBC797767(MdBmJHUP)muse48668(OCoLC)967564963(EXLCZ)99255000000006495220110512d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDDT and the American CenturyGlobal Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World /David KinkelaChapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press,2011.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2017©2011.1 online resource (497 p.)The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the stateDescription based upon print version of record.1-4696-0977-0 0-8078-3509-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-248) and index.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.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]Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, society, & the state.DDT (Insecticide)Environmental aspectsInsect pestsControlHistory20th centuryDDT (Insecticide)History20th centuryElectronic books. DDT (Insecticide)Environmental aspects.Insect pestsControlHistoryDDT (Insecticide)History632/.9517Kinkela David1047793MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910457939303321DDT and the American Century2475640UNINA