Economic Poisoning

Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture

Adam M. Romero (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2021
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38156-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Adam M. Romero is Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell.

List 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
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics ; 8
Zusatzinfo	24 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-520-38156-4 / 0520381564
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38156-8 / 9780520381568
Zustand	Neuware