The Defoliation of America : Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests.
By: Hay, Amy Marie.
Contributor(s): Hersey, Mark D.
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BookSeries: NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine Ser: Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2021Copyright date: �2022Edition: 1st ed.Description: 1 online resource (329 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780817393793.Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 632/.954 Online resources: Click to View | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Defoliation of America: Chemical Uses and Protests in Post-1945 America -- PART ONE. The Origins of the Phenoxy Herbicide Uses and Protests, 1940-70 -- Chapter One. Controlling Jungle Lawns and Jungle Wars Domestic and International Uses of the Phenoxy Herbicides -- Chapter Two. The Quickening Conscience Seminarians, Students, and Scientists Protest the Phenoxy Herbicides -- Chapter Three. Ecological Disruption in Vietnam International Protests over Crop Destruction, Defoliation, and Ecological Imperialism -- PART TWO. Three Cases in the West Arizona, California, and Oregon, 1960-80 -- Chapter Four. Water in the West Billee Shoecraft and Herbicide Use in Arizona -- Chapter Five. Fires, Farms, Forests Ida Honorof and Herbicide Use in California -- Chapter Six. Timber and Rights-of-Way Carol Van Strum and Herbicide Spraying in Oregon -- PART THREE. The Phenoxy Herbicides' Toxic Legacies, 1970-95 -- Chapter Seven. The War on Drugs The Phenoxy Herbicides in Counterinsurgency and the Counterculture -- Chapter Eight. Fighting the Deadly Fog Vietnam Veterans Protest Agent Orange Herbicides -- Chapter Nine. Unexpected Casualties The Phenoxy Herbicides and Reproductive Harm -- Conclusion. The Dissenters: Citizens Protest Chemical Herbicides -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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