Finlay, Mark R.
Growing American rubber strategic plants and the politics of national security / [electronic resource] : Mark R. Finlay. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009. - xiii, 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment . - Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment. .
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA943175 bnb
Uk
Rubber industry and trade--History.--United States
Rubber plants--Research--United States.
Electronic books.
HD9161.U52 / F56 2009eb
633.8/95
Growing American rubber strategic plants and the politics of national security / [electronic resource] : Mark R. Finlay. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009. - xiii, 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment . - Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment. .
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA943175 bnb
Uk
Rubber industry and trade--History.--United States
Rubber plants--Research--United States.
Electronic books.
HD9161.U52 / F56 2009eb
633.8/95