DDT and the American century: global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the world
(2011)
By:
Kinkela, David
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : The University of North Carolina Press : Made available through hoopla, 2011
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780807869307 (electronic bk.) MWT11720338, 0807869309 (electronic bk.) 11720338
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Praised for its ability to kill insects effectively and cheaply and reviled as an ecological hazard, DDT continues to engender passion across the political spectrum as one of the world's most controversial chemical pesticides. 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. Kinkela's study offers a unique approach to understanding both this contentious chemical and modern environmentalism in an international context
Mode of access: World Wide Web