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Growing American rubber: strategic plants and the politics of national security

Mark R. Finlay
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  • Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page vii)
  • List of Tables (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • Chapter 1 The American Dependence on Imported Rubber: The Lessons of Revolution and War, 1911-1922 (page 22)
  • Chapter 2 Domestic Rubber Crops in an Era of Nationalism and Internationalism (page 45)
  • Chapter 3 Thoams Edison and the Challenges of the New Rubber Crops (page 74)
  • Chapter 4 The Nadir of Rubber Crop Research, 1928-1941 (page 107)
  • Chapter 5 Crops in War: Rubber Plant Research on the Grand Scale (page 140)
  • Chapter 6 Sustainable Rubber from Grain: The Gillette Committee and the Battles over Synthetic Rubber (page 171)
  • Chapter 7 Resistance to Domestic Rubber Crops and the Decline of the Emergency Rubber Project (page 198)
  • Chapter 8 From Domestic Rubber Crops to Biotechnology (page 226)
  • Notes (page 237)
  • Index (page 307)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
TC 51.4 (Oct. 2010): 1033-1034 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v051/51.4.anderson.html
SHQ 115.1 (Jul. 2011): 81-82 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/southwestern_historical_quarterly/v115/115.1.anderson.html
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Published: c2009
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Copyright Holder: Rutgers University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780813561578 (paper)
  • 9780813548708 (ebook)
  • 9780813544830 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Environmental History
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