Growing American rubber [electronic resource] : strategic plants and the politics of national security / Mark R. Finlay.
Series: Studies in modern science, technology, and the environmentPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.Description: xiii, 317 p. : illISBN:- 9780813544830 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813544831 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 633.8/95 22
- HD9161.U52 F56 2009eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-306) and index.
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.
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