03347nam 2200649Ia 450 991096679650332120200520144314.0979-88-908862-8-6979-88-9313-463-61-4696-0263-60-8078-6930-9(CKB)2550000000064952(EBL)797767(OCoLC)761284042(SSID)ssj0000535700(PQKBManifestationID)11354892(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535700(PQKBWorkID)10547122(PQKB)11521447(MdBmJHUP)muse48668(OCoLC)967564963(Perlego)540005(MiAaPQ)EBC797767(EXLCZ)99255000000006495220110512d2011 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDDT and the American century global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the world /David Kinkela1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20111 online resource (497 p.)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 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)History20th centuryInsect pestsControlHistory20th centuryDDT (Insecticide)Environmental aspectsDDT (Insecticide)HistoryInsect pestsControlHistoryDDT (Insecticide)Environmental aspects.632/.9517Kinkela David1832479MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966796503321DDT and the American century4406626UNINA