| Description |
ix, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Hagley perspectives on business and culture ; v. 5
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Hagley perspectives on business and culture ; v. 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: Plants, Profits, Politics, and Power -- "For Profit and Pleasure": Peter Henderson and the Commercialization of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America / Susan Warren Lanman -- Biological Innovation in American Wheat Production: Science, Policy, and Environmental Adaptation / Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode -- Creating an Industrial Plant: The Biotechnonology of Sugar Production in Cuba / Mark J. Smith -- Manufacturing Green Gold: Industrial Tree Improvement and the Power of Heredity in the Postwar United States / William Body and Scott Prudham -- Part II: Animals, Aggression, Arrogance, and Analysis -- War Hourses: Equine Technology in the American Civil War / Ann N. Greene -- Turbo-Cows: Producing a Competitive Animal in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Barbara Orland -- Canine Technologies, Model Patients: The Historical Productin of Hemophiliac Dogs in American Biomedicine / Stephen Pemberton -- Making the Chicken of Tomorrow: Reworking Poultry as Commodities and as Creatures, 1945-1990 / Roger Horowitz -- Hogs, Antibiotics, and the Industrial Environments of Postwar Agriculture / Mark R. Finlay -- Afterword / Susan R. Schrepfer |
| Subject |
Agricultural biotechnology.
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Agricultural biotechnology. |
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Agricultural biotechnology -- Environmental aspects.
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Agricultural biotechnology -- Environmental aspects. |
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Transgenic organisms.
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Transgenic organisms. |
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Agricultural innovations.
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Agricultural innovations. |
| Added Author |
Scranton, Philip.
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Schrepfer, Susan R.
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| ISBN |
0415945488 paperback alkaline paper |
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041594547X hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780415945479 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780415945486 paperback alkaline paper |
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