Growing American Rubber

Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security

Mark R Finlay (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2013
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-6157-8 (ISBN)

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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 government to sever American dependence on foreign suppliers.

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 government to sever American dependence on foreign suppliers. Mark Finlay plots out intersecting networks of actors including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, prominent botanists, interned Japanese Americans, Haitian peasants, and ordinary citizensÙall of whom contributed to this search for economic self-sufficiency. Challenging once-familiar boundaries between agriculture and industry and field and laboratory, Finlay also identifies an era in which perceived boundaries between natural and synthetic came under review.Although synthetic rubber emerged from World War II as one solution, the issue of ever-diminishing natural resources and the question of how to meet twenty-first-century consumer, military, and business demands lingers today.

MARK R. FINLAY is a professor of history at Armstrong Atlantic State University. He is the author of numerous articles on the history of "chemurgy," the intersection of agriculture and industry.

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The American Dependence on Imported Rubber
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
Resistance to Domestic Rubber Crops and the
Decline of the Emergency Rubber Project
From Domestic Rubber Crops to Biotechnology
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.5.2013
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment
Zusatzinfo	24
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Technik
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-8135-6157-4 / 0813561574
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-6157-8 / 9780813561578
Zustand	Neuware