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

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, Lat...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2008]
©2005
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:Revised Edition
Language:English
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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