Geopolitics and the Green Revolution : Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War
John H. Perkins
Bok Engelsk 1997 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | New York : : Oxford University Press, , 1997.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (352 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; 1 Political Ecology and the Yield Transformation; 2 Wheat, People, and Plant Breeding; 3 Wheat Breeding: Coalescence of a Modern Science, 1900-1959; 4 Plant Breeding in Its Institutional and Political Economic Setting, 1900-1940; 5 The Rockefeller Foundation in Mexico: The New International Politics of Plant Breeding, 1941-1945; 6 Hunger, Overpopulation, and National Security: A New Strategic Theory for Plant Breeding, 1945-1956; 7 Wheat Breeding and the Exercise of American Power, 1940-1970; 8 Wheat Breeding and the Consolidation of Indian Autonomy, 1940-1970. - 9 Wheat Breeding and the Reconstruction of Postimperial Britain, 1935-195410 Science and the Green Revolution, 1945-1975; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. - Perkins explores why four countries each sought to develop high yielding wheat production. National security concerns and management of foreign exchange were prime motivators of the new technologies, a relationship that has not been previously developed in studies of agricultural modernization.
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| ISBN | 0195110137
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