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245 10 a| DDT and the American centuryh| [electronic resource] :b| global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the world /c| David Kinkela.;

260 a| Chapel Hill :b| University of North Carolina Press,;

300 a| xiv, 256 p. :b| ill. ;c| 25 cm.;

490 1 a| The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the state;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-248) and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| 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];

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DDT and the American century global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the world / David Kinkela.

Author/creator	Kinkela, David
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,
Description	xiv, 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	DDT (Insecticide)--History. --20th century. Insect pests--Control. --History. --20th century. DDT (Insecticide)--Environmental aspects.

Series	The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the state Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, society, & the state. ^A707260
Contents	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.
Abstract	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]
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-248) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2011015416
ISBN	9780807835098 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0807835099 (cloth : alk. paper)

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