Growing American rubber strategic plants and the politics of national security /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
c2009.
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| Series: | Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment.
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Table of Contents:
- The American dependence on imported rubber : the lessons of revolution and war, 1911-1922
- Domestic rubber crops in an era of nationalism and internationalism
- Thomas Edison and the challenges of the new rubber crops
- The nadir of rubber crop research, 1928-1941
- Crops in war : rubber plant research on the grand scale
- Sustainable rubber from grain : the Gillette Committee and the battles over synthetic rubber
- Resistance to domestic rubber crops and the decline of the Emergency Rubber Project
- From domestic rubber crops to biotechnology.