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New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009

1 online resource (xiii, 317 p.) : ill

ISBN 0813544831 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780813544830 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-306) and index

The American dependence on imported rubber : the lessons of revolution and war, 1911-1922 -- 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 : the Gillette Committee and the battles over synthetic rubber -- Resistance to domestic rubber crops and the decline of the Emergency Rubber Project -- From domestic rubber crops to biotechnology.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)655848230

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