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  Title

  DDT and the American century : global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the world

  Author

  Kinkela, David.  

  Publisher:

  University of North Carolina Press,

  Pub date:

  c2011.

  Pages:

  xiv, 256 p. :

  ISBN:

  9780807835098

  Item info:

  1 copy available at New York State Library.
  

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

  Control number:

  ocn711043279

  ISBN:

  9780807835098 (cloth : alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  0807835099 (cloth : alk. paper)

  Local control number:

  (OCoLC)711043279

  Call number:

  632.9517 K556 212-1393

  Author:

  Kinkela, David.

  Title:

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

  Imprint:

  Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.

  Physical description:

  xiv, 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

  Series:

  (The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the state)

  Note:

  Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-248) and index.

  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.

  Summary:

  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]

  Held by:

  NYSL

  Subject:

  DDT (Insecticide)--History--20th century.

  Subject:

  Insect pests--Control--History--20th century.

  Subject:

  DDT (Insecticide)--Environmental aspects.

  Series:

  (Luther H. Hodges, Jr. and Luther H. Hodges, Sr. series on business, society, & the state.)