DDT and the American century
Subtitle: global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the world
By: David Kinkela
Series: The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. series on business, society, and the state
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780807835098
Subjects: DDT (Insecticide); Control; Environmental aspects; Insect pests; History
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]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.