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Author Von Hippel, Frank A. (Frank Arthur), author.

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

Publication Info. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 389 pages): illustrations, maps
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-353) and index.
Summary "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 shows how they've made the modern world possible, while at the same time threatening its essential fabric. "This book starts with a tragedy that led scientists on an urgent mission to prevent famine with chemicals," von Hippel writes in his manuscript's Prologue. "It ends with the realization that those chemicals were insidiously damaging human health and driving species toward extinction." Along the way, we learn how pesticides' destructive legacy led to the environmental movement and made possible a new era of ecological thinking"-- Provided by publisher.
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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Subject Pesticides -- History.
Pesticides.
History.
Chemical weapons -- History.
Chemical weapons.
Pesticides -- Environmental aspects.
Pesticides -- Environmental aspects.
Chemical industry -- Environmental aspects.
Human ecology -- History.
Chemical industry -- Environmental aspects.
Environmentalism -- History.
Human ecology.
Environmentalism.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Pest Control.
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Von Hippel, Frank A. (Frank Arthur). Chemical age. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2020] 9780226697246 (DLC) 2019046215 (OCoLC)1117633408
ISBN 9780226697383 (electronic book)
022669738X (electronic book)
9780226697246 (hardcover)
022669724X (hardcover)