Growing American Rubber : : Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security /

Growing American Rubber : : Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security / / Mark R Finlay.

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Growing American Rubber explores America's quest during tense decades of the twentieth century to identify a viable source of domestic rubber. Straddling international revolutions and world wars, this unique and well-researched history chronicles efforts of leaders in business, science, and gov...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Finlay, Mark R,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 24
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The American Dependence on Imported Rubber: The Lessons of Revolution and War, 1911-1922
  • Chapter 2. Domestic Rubber Crops in an Era of Nationalism and Internationalism
  • Chapter 3. Thomas Edison and the Challenges of the New Rubber Crops
  • Chapter 4. The Nadir of Rubber Crop Research, 1928-1941
  • Chapter 5. Crops in War: Rubber Plant Research on the Grand Scale
  • Chapter 6. Sustainable Rubber from Grain: The Gillette Committee and the Battles over Synthetic Rubber
  • Chapter 7. Resistance to Domestic Rubber Crops and the Decline of the Emergency Rubber Project
  • Chapter 8. From Domestic Rubber Crops to Biotechnology
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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