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Pesticides, a love story : America's enduring embrace of dangerous chemicals / Michelle Mart.

By: Series: CultureAmericaPublisher: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2015Description: 337 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780700621286 (hardback : alkaline paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.738/498 23
LOC classification:
  • SB950.2.A1 M37 2015
Other classification:
  • HIS036060 | POL044000 | NAT011000
Contents:
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.
Scope and content: "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"-- Provided by publisher.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

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