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001 2007034781
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100 1 $aAllen, Will,$d1936-
245 14 $aThe war on bugs /$cWill Allen.
260 $aWhite River Junction, Vt. :$bChelsea Green Pub.,$cc2008.
300 $axxix, 268 p. :$bill. (some col.), col. map ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 258-260) and index.
505 0 $aThe roots of farming in the Americas -- America's first farm revitalization movement -- The birth of the rural journals -- Guano and the birth of the rural-industrial mouthpiece -- Liebig and the industrialists -- The fertilizer merchants -- The medical ancestry of pesticides -- Ratcatchers, quacks, and early pest control in America -- The populist farmers' movement -- Paint pigments and other lethal poisons -- Arsenic regulation, the FDA, and other regulatory hoaxes -- The first advertised war on the farms -- Populist farmers, the Red Scare, and the origin of modern organic movement -- Pesticide spray devices, household poisons, and Dr. Seuss -- Medical heroes, war heroes, and more regulation struggles -- The pesticides of the 1930s -- Bombs and fertilizers -- War toys -- Animal confinement and the pharmaceutical farm -- DDT and other second-generation pesticides under attack -- Twenty-first century populism: organic farming and the anti-factory-farm movement -- Designer genes: a leap of faith -- 160 years of poisonous advertising -- Who invited these chemicals to dinner? a leap of hope.
505 0 $aThe roots of farming in the Americas -- America's first farm revitalization movement -- The birth of the rural journals -- Guano and the birth of the rural-industrial mouthpiece -- Liebig and the industrialists -- The fertilizer merchants -- The medical ancestry of pesticides -- Ratcatchers, quacks, and early pest control in America -- The populist farmers' movement -- Paint pigments and other lethal poisons -- Arsenic regulation, the FDA, and other regulatory hoaxes -- The first advertised war on the farms -- Populist farmers, the red scare, and the origin of modern organics -- Pesticide spray devices, household poisons, and Dr. Seuss -- Medical heroes, war heroes, and more regulation struggles -- The pesticides from the 1930s -- Bombs and fertilizers -- War toys -- Animal testing and the pharmaceutical farm -- DDT and other second-generation pesticides under attack -- Twenty-first century populism -- Designer genes: a leap of faith -- 160 years of poisonous advertising -- Who invited these chemicals to dinner? a leap of hope.
650 0 $aPesticides$xEnvironmental aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAgricultural chemicals industry$zUnited States$xHistory.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2007034781-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2007034781-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2007034781-t.html