Economic poisoning : industrial waste and the chemicalization of American agriculture / Adam M. Romero.

By:

Romero, Adam [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Critical environments (Oakland, Calif.) ; 8.Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]Description: (1 online resource) xviii;251 pages illustrations (same colour)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520381575

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Economic poisoningDDC classification:

363.738/49809794 23

LOC classification:

TD897.75.C2

Contents:

Arsenic and old waste -- Commercializing chemical warfare -- Manufacturing petrotoxicty -- Public-private partnerships -- From oil well to farm.

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	GSU Library Epoch General Stacks	Non-fiction	TD897.75C2ROM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		50000005492

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Arsenic and old waste -- Commercializing chemical warfare -- Manufacturing petrotoxicty -- Public-private partnerships -- From oil well to farm.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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