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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Adam M. RomeroPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 8 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780520381551ISBN 10: 0520381556 Pages: 270 Publication Date: 16 November 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Arsenic and Old Waste 2. Commercializing Chemical Warfare 3. Manufacturing Petrotoxicity 4. Public-Private Partnerships 5. From Oil Well to Farm Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsEconomic Poisoning clearly lays out the economic and technological underpinnings that continue to make pesticides ubiquitous. * California History * ""Economic Poisoning clearly lays out the economic and technological underpinnings that continue to make pesticides ubiquitous."" * California History * Author InformationAdam M. Romero is Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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