Pesticides, a love story : America's enduring embrace of dangerous chemicals /
Mart, Michelle, 1964-
Pesticides, a love story : America's enduring embrace of dangerous chemicals / Michelle Mart. - 337 pages ; 24 cm. - CultureAmerica .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Falling in Love : The Golden Age of Synthetic Pesticides -- Trouble in Paradise : The USDA and the Rise of Critical Voices -- Breakup? : The Cultural Impact of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring -- Foreign Affairs : How Pesticides Could Help Americans Feed the World and Win a War -- The Twenty-Year Itch : Activists, Experts, and the Regulatory Era -- Love Is Blind : Chemical Disasters at Home and Abroad -- Recommitment : Endocrine Disruptors, GMOs, and Organic Food.
"A provocative cultural history of pesticides and their controversial use and depiction in the United States. Mart contends that--despite the sharp concerns raised by environmentalists and others since the appearance of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring--Americans have not only never resolved the inherent tension between costs and benefits presented by these chemicals, but have actually grown ever more attached to them with the passage of time"--
9780700621286 (hardback : alkaline paper)
2015020380
Pesticides--History.--United States
Agricultural chemicals--History.--United States
Pesticides--Social aspects--History.--United States
Pesticides--Public opinion--History.--United States
Public opinion--History.--United States
Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.--United States
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy.
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
United States--Social conditions--1945-
United States--Environmental conditions.
SB950.2.A1 / M37 2015
363.738/498
Pesticides, a love story : America's enduring embrace of dangerous chemicals / Michelle Mart. - 337 pages ; 24 cm. - CultureAmerica .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Falling in Love : The Golden Age of Synthetic Pesticides -- Trouble in Paradise : The USDA and the Rise of Critical Voices -- Breakup? : The Cultural Impact of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring -- Foreign Affairs : How Pesticides Could Help Americans Feed the World and Win a War -- The Twenty-Year Itch : Activists, Experts, and the Regulatory Era -- Love Is Blind : Chemical Disasters at Home and Abroad -- Recommitment : Endocrine Disruptors, GMOs, and Organic Food.
"A provocative cultural history of pesticides and their controversial use and depiction in the United States. Mart contends that--despite the sharp concerns raised by environmentalists and others since the appearance of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring--Americans have not only never resolved the inherent tension between costs and benefits presented by these chemicals, but have actually grown ever more attached to them with the passage of time"--
9780700621286 (hardback : alkaline paper)
2015020380
Pesticides--History.--United States
Agricultural chemicals--History.--United States
Pesticides--Social aspects--History.--United States
Pesticides--Public opinion--History.--United States
Public opinion--History.--United States
Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.--United States
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy.
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
United States--Social conditions--1945-
United States--Environmental conditions.
SB950.2.A1 / M37 2015
363.738/498