Growing American rubber : strategic plants and the politics of national security / / Mark R. Finlay.

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Superior document:Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment.
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Physical Description:xiii, 317 p. :; ill.
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245 1 0 |a Growing American rubber  |h [electronic resource] :  |b strategic plants and the politics of national security /  |c Mark R. Finlay. 
260 |a New Brunswick, N.J. :  |b Rutgers University Press,  |c c2009. 
300 |a xiii, 317 p. :  |b ill. 
490 1 |a Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-306) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
650 0 |a Rubber industry and trade  |z United States  |x History. 
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