The chemical age : how chemists fought famine and disease, killed millions, and changed our relation...
The chemical age : how chemists fought famine and disease, killed millions, and changed our relation...
The chemical age : how chemists fought famine and disease, killed millions, and changed our relationship with the Earth / Frank A. von Hippel.
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
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G 2020/4995
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English
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xiii, 389 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
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)...
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Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2020.
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"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...
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The chemical age : how chemists fought famine and disease, killed millions, and changed our relationship with the Earth / Frank A. von Hippel.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/4995
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74VKaJ8jwZZl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaJ8jwZZl
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ISBN
022669724X
9780226697246
DDC
632.9509
MMS ID
991024372714102626
