DDT and the American century

Description

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 projects designed to solve problems of disease and famine made it an integral component of the so-called American Century.--[book cover]

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Series Statement

• The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the state

Other Editions

• DDT and the American century: global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the worldUniversity of North Carolina Press2011-01-01
• DDT and the American CenturyUniversity of North Carolina Press2011-01-01
• DDT and the American CenturyUniversity of North Carolina Press2013-01-01