The chemical age : how chemists fought famine and disease, killed millions, and changed our relationship with the Earth /: how chemists fought famine and disease, killed millions, and changed our relationship with the Earth. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Frank A. von Hippel.
• Authors: Von Hippel, Frank A (Frank Arthur)
• Contents: Prologue Author's Note Part 1: Famine Chapter 1. Potato Blight (1586–1883) Part 2: Plague Chapter 2. Marsh Fever (2700 BCE–1902) Chapter 3. Black Vomit (1793–1953) Chapter 4. Jail Fever (1489–1958) Chapter 5. Black Death (541–1922) Part 3: War Chapter 6. Synthetic Chemicals of War (423 BCE–1920) Chapter 7. Zyklon (1917–1947) Chapter 8. DDT (1939–1950) Chapter 9. I. G. Farben (1916–1959) Part 4: Ecology Chapter 10. Resistance (1945–1962) Chapter 11. Silent Spring (1962–1964) Chapter 12. Wonder and Humility (1962–The Future) Epilogue Acknowledgments Map of Place Names Literature Cited Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 632.9509; Pesticides -- History; Pesticides -- Environmental aspects; Chemical industry -- Environmental aspects; Human ecology -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226697383
• Related ISBNs: 9780226697246
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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