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

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Bibliografiset tiedot
Päätekijä: Finlay, Mark R.
Yhteisötekijä: ebrary, Inc
Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen E-kirja
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.
Sarja:Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment.
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Linkit:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Sisällysluettelo:
  • 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.