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The chemical age : how chemists fought famine and disease, killed millions, and changed our relationship with the Earth / Frank A. von Hippel.

"It has been nearly 60 years since the publication of Silent Spring, in which Rachel Carson brought to light evidence of the devastating ecological effects of pesticides. This book, by Frank von Hippel, is a sweeping history of these chemicals and our complicated relationship with them. It show...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Von Hippel, Frank A. (Frank Arthur) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Pesticides > History.
Chemical weapons > History.
Pesticides > Environmental aspects.
Chemical industry > Environmental aspects.
Human ecology > History.
Environmentalism > History.
Chemical weapons.
Environmentalism.
Human ecology.
Pesticides.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Famine. Potato blight (1586-1883)
  • Plague. Marsh fever (2700 BCE-1902) ; Black vomit (1793-1953) ; Jail fever (1489-1958) ; Black death (541-1922)
  • War. Synthetic chemicals of war (423 BCE-1920) ; Zyklon (1917-1947) ; DDT (1939-1950) ; I. G. Farben (1916-1959)
  • Ecology. Resistance (1945-1962) ; Silent Spring (1962-1964) ; Wonder and humility (1962-The Future)

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