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Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security (Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment)

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Author(s): Mark R. Finlay
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 336

Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
List of Tables
......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 18
1. The American Dependence on Imported Rubber: The Lessons of Revolution and War, 1911-1922
......Page 39
2. Domestic Rubber Crops in an Era of Nationalism and Internationalism
......Page 62
3. Thomas Edison and the Challenges of the New Rubber Crops
......Page 91
4. The Nadir of Rubber Crop Research, 1928-1941
......Page 124
5. Crops in War: Rubber Plant Research on the Grand Scale
......Page 157
6. Sustainable Rubber from Grain: The Gillette Committee and the Battles over Synthetic Rubber
......Page 188
7. Resistance to Domestic Rubber Crops and the Decline of the Emergency Rubber Project
......Page 215
8. From Domestic Rubber Crops to Biotechnology
......Page 243
Notes......Page 254
Index......Page 324