The Death of Ramón González : : The Modern Agricultural Dilemma / / Angus Wright.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Wright, Angus,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2008]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: Revised Edition
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The Death of Ramón González has become a benchmark book since its publication in 1990. It has been taught in undergraduate and graduate courses in every social science discipline, sustainable and alternative agriculture, environmental studies, ecology, ethnic studies, public health, and Mexican, Latin American, and environmental history. The book has also been used at the University of California-Santa Cruz as a model of interdisciplinary work and at the University of Iowa as a model of fine journalism, and has inspired numerous other books, theses, films, and investigative journalism pieces. This revised edition of The Death of Ramón González updates the science and politics of pesticides and agricultural development. In a new afterword, Angus Wright reconsiders the book's central ideas within the context of globalization, trade liberalization, and NAFTA, showing that in many ways what he called "the modern agricultural dilemma" should now be thought of as a "twenty-first century dilemma" that involves far more than agriculture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Mexico and the Pesticide Crusade -- 1. The Death of Ramon Gonzalez -- 2. The Road to Culiacan -- 3. Doctors and Bureaucrats -- 4. Going Home -- 5. King Eight Deer, the Plagues, and the Devastation of the Land -- 6. Technology and Conflict -- 7. Consumers, Workers, Growers, and Experts -- 8. Theory and Consequences -- 9. The Modern Agricultural Dilemma -- 10. Points North -- Afterword: The Death of Ramon Gonzalez and the Twenty-first Century Dilemma -- References -- Index