DDT and the American Century : Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World / / David Kinkela
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2011 |
| Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017 | |
| ©2011 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (497 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 632/.9517 |
| Soggetto topico: | DDT (Insecticide) - Environmental aspects |
| Insect pests - Control - History - 20th century | |
| DDT (Insecticide) - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-248) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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] |
| Titolo autorizzato: | DDT and the American Century |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-0263-6 |
| 0-8078-6930-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457939303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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