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LEADER: 01638cam a22003138a 4500
001 2008029190
003 DLC
005 20090901065121.0
008 080708s2009 nju b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008029190
020 $a9780813544830 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(DNAL)1008440
040 $aDNAL/DLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aHD9161.U52$bF56 2009
070 0 $aHD9161.U62$bF55 2009
082 00 $a633.8/95$222
100 1 $aFinlay, Mark R.
245 10 $aGrowing American rubber :$bstrategic plants and the politics of national security /$cMark R. Finlay.
260 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. :$bRutgers University Press,$cc2009.
263 $a0906
300 $ap. cm.
440 0 $aStudies in modern science, technology, and the environment
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe American dependence on imported rubber and 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, 1929-1941 -- 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 emergency rubber project -- From domestic rubber crops to biotechnology.
650 0 $aRubber industry and trade$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aRubber plants$xResearch$zUnited States.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0823/2008029190.html