Pesticides, a Love Story

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

Pesticides, a Love Story

By Michelle Mart

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About the book

Presto! No More Pests!" proclaimed a 1955 article introducing two new pesticides, "miracle-workers for the housewife and back-yard farmer." Easy to use, effective, and safe: who couldn't love synthetic pesticides? Apparently most Americans did-and apparently still do. Why-in the face of dire warnings, rising expense, and declining effectiveness-do we cling to our chemicals? Michelle Mart wondered. Her book, a cultural history of pesticide use in postwar America, offers an answer. America's embra...Show more

Environmental policy and protocols

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9780700621286

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University Press of Kansas

Published year

2015

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Pesticides, a Love Story

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Hardcover

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