DDT and the American century global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the world - Kinkela, David (University of North Carolina Press, 2011)
DDT and the American Century -- An island in a sea of disease: DDT enters a global war -- Disease, DDT, and development: the American Century in Italy -- Science in the service of agriculture: DDT and the beginning of the green revolution in Mexico -- The age of wreckers and exterminators: eradication in the postwar world -- Green revolutions in conflict: debating Silent spring, food, and science during the Cold War -- It's all or nothing: debating DDT and development under the law -- One man's pesticide is another man's poison: the controversy continues -- Rethinking DDT in a global age
Includes bibliographical references and index
The banning of DDT in the United States, spurred in part by the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's environmental classic Silent Spring, is generally regarded as a watershed moment and signal triumph for the American environmental movement. But in this tr