First the Seed The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology

Name: First the Seed The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology
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ISBN: 9780299192440

ISBN-10: 029919244X

ISBN-13: 9780299192440

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Jack Ralph Kloppenburg, Jack Ralph Kloppenburg

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First the Seed spotlights the history of plant breeding and shows how efforts to control the seed have shaped the emergence of the agricultural biotechnology industry. This second edition of a classic work in the political economy of science includes an extensive, new chapter updating the analysis to include the most recent developments in the struggle over the direction of crop genetic engineering. 1988 Cloth, 1990 Paperback, Cambridge University Press Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Agricultural History Society Winner of the Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological Association

Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 3/16/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 468
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English




Introduction



Science, agriculture, and social change



The genetic foundation of American agriculture



Public science ascendant : plant breeding comes of age



Heterosis and the social division of labor



Plant breeders' rights and the social division of labor : historical perspective



Seeds of struggle : plant genetic resources in the world system



Outdoing evolution : biotechnology, botany, and business



Directions for deployment



Conclusion



Still the seed : plant biotechnology in the twenty-first century