Book ID: CBB940384528

Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture (2021)

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Romero, Adam (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 270
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 in which 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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Authors & Contributors
Specht, Joshua Albert
Varno, Theodore James
Van Lanen, Amanda
Johnson, Walter
Young, David M.
Wright, Gavin
Concepts
Technology and industry
Technology and economics
Chemical pollution
Agriculture
Environmental pollution
Farms
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Arkansas (U.S.)
Washington (state, U.S.)
Portugal
Europe
Institutions
New Deal (1933-1939)
United States. Dept. of Agriculture
International Business Machines Corporation
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