DDT and the American Century Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World

Name: DDT and the American Century Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World
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ISBN: 9781469609775

ISBN-10: 1469609770

ISBN-13: 9781469609775

Edition: 2013

Authors: David Kinkela

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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.The banning of DDT in the United States in 1972 is generally regarded as a signal triumph for the American environmental movement. Yet DDT's function as a tool of U.S. foreign policy and its use in international development…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 8/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

David Kinkela is assistant professor of history at the State University of New York-Fredonia.