Book ID: CBB048706705

Economic poisoning : Industrial waste and the chemicalization of American agriculture (2022)

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Romero, Adam (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2022
Edition Details: Book Series: Critical environments : nature, science, and politics, no. 8;
Physical Details: 251
Language: English

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. (Publisher)

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Review Amy M. Hay (July 2022) Review of "Economic poisoning : Industrial waste and the chemicalization of American agriculture". Technology and Culture (pp. 893-894). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Vail, David D.
Suryanarayanan, Sainath
Guthman, Julie
Mart, Michelle
Murphy, Mark A.
Jennie L Durant
Concepts
Pesticides; insecticides
Agriculture
Chemical industry
Environment
Environmental pollution
Environmentalism
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
California (U.S.)
Great Britain
Kansas (U.S.)
Silicon Valley (California)
Argentina
Institutions
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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