First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jack Ralph KloppenburgSeries:Science and Technology in SocietyPublish date:2005-03-16Pages:468
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299192440ISBN-10:029919244XUPC:9780299192440Book Category:Technology & Engineering, ScienceBook Subcategory:Agriculture, BiotechnologyBook Topic:Sustainable Agriculture, AgronomySize:8.96 x 6.20 x 1.01 inchesWeight:1.3Product ID:SC7CSA7ZBG
First the Seed spotlights the history of plant breeding and shows how efforts to control the seed have shaped the emergence of the agricultural biotechnology industry. This second edition of a classic work in the political economy of science includes an extensive, new chapter updating the analysis to include the most recent developments in the struggle over the direction of crop genetic engineering. 1988 Cloth, 1990 Paperback, Cambridge University Press
Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Agricultural History Society
Winner of the Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Agricultural History Society
Winner of the Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological Association
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299192440ISBN-10:029919244XUPC:9780299192440Book Category:Technology & Engineering, ScienceBook Subcategory:Agriculture, BiotechnologyBook Topic:Sustainable Agriculture, AgronomySize:8.96 x 6.20 x 1.01 inchesWeight:1.3Product ID:SC7CSA7ZBG
Jack Ralph Kloppenburg Jr. is professor of rural sociology in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
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2nd Edition
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