TY  - BOOK
AU  - Romero,Adam
TI  - Economic poisoning: industrial waste and the chemicalization of American agriculture 
T2  - Critical environments : nature, science, and politics
SN  - 9780520381575
AV  - TD897.75.C2 
U1  - 363.738/49809794 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Factory and trade waste
KW  - California
KW  - Pesticides
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Agricultural chemicals industry
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Arsenic and old waste -- Commercializing chemical warfare -- Manufacturing petrotoxicty -- Public-private partnerships -- From oil well to farm
N2  - "The toxicity of pesticides to the environment and humans is often framed as an unfortunate effect of their benefits to agricultural production. In Economic Poisoning, Adam M. Romero upends this narrative and provides a fascinating new history of pesticides in American industrial agriculture prior to World War II. Through impeccable archival research, Romero reveals the ways late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American agriculture, especially in California, functioned less as a market for novel pest-killing chemical products and more as a sink for the accumulating toxic wastes of mining, oil production, and chemical manufacturing. Connecting farming ecosystems to technology and the economy, Romero provides an intriguing reconceptualization of pesticides that forces readers to rethink assumptions about food, industry, and the relationship between human and nonhuman environments"--
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