The war on bugs / Will Allen.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781933392462
- ISBN: 1933392460
- Physical Description: xxix, 268 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 23 cm
- Publisher: White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., [2008]
- Copyright: ©2008
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-260) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The roots of farming in the Americas -- America's first farm revitalization movement -- The birth of the rural journals -- Guano and the birth of the rural-industrial mouthpiece -- Liebig and the industrialists -- The fertilizer merchants -- The medical ancestry of pesticides -- Ratcatchers, quacks, and early pest control in America -- The populist farmers' movement -- Paint pigments and other lethal poisons -- Arsenic regulation, the FDA, and other regulatory hoaxes -- The first advertised war on the farms -- Populist farmers, the Red Scare, and the origin of modern organic movement -- Pesticide spray devices, household poisons, and Dr. Seuss -- Medical heroes, war heroes, and more regulation struggles -- The pesticides of the 1930s -- Bombs and fertilizers -- War toys -- Animal confinement and the pharmaceutical farm -- DDT and other second-generation pesticides under attack -- Twenty-first century populism: organic farming and the anti-factory-farm movement -- Designer genes: a leap of faith -- 160 years of poisonous advertising -- Who invited these chemicals to dinner? a leap of hope. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Pesticides > Environmental aspects > United States. Agricultural chemicals industry > United States > History. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statesville Main Library | 363.179209 ALL (Text) | 33114016100521 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
