Growing American rubber
Subtitle: strategic plants and the politics of national security
By: Mark R. Finlay.
Series: Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813544830
Subjects: Rubber industry and trade -- United States -- History; Rubber plants -- Research -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The American dependence on imported rubber and the lessons of revolution and war, 1911-1922; title: Domestic rubber crops in an era of nationalism and internationalism; title: Thomas Edison and the challenges of the new rubber crops; title: The nadir of rubber crop research, 1929-1941; title: Crops in war: rubber plant research on the grand scale; title: Sustainable rubber from grain: the Gillette Committee and the battles over synthetic rubber; title: Resistance to domestic rubber crops and the decline of emergency rubber project; title: From domestic rubber crops to biotechnology.