The chemical age : how chemists fought famine and disease, killed millions, and changed our relationship with the Earth / Frank A. von Hippel.
2020
TD196.P38 V66 2020
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The chemical age : how chemists fought famine and disease, killed millions, and changed our relationship with the Earth / Frank A. von Hippel.
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9780226697383 (electronic book)
022669738X (electronic book)
9780226697246
022669724X
022669738X (electronic book)
9780226697246
022669724X
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2020]
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English
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1 online resource (xiii, 389 pages:) : illustrations, maps.
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TD196.P38 V66 2020
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632/.9509
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
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Table of Contents
Famine. Potato blight (1586-1883)
Plague. Marsh fever (2700 BCE-1902) ; Black vomit (1793-1953) ; Jail fever (1489-1958) ; Black death (541-1922)
War. Synthetic chemicals of war (423 BCE-1920) ; Zyklon (1917-1947) ; DDT (1939-1950) ; I. G. Farben (1916-1959)
Ecology. Resistance (1945-1962) ; Silent Spring (1962-1964) ; Wonder and humility (1962-The Future).
Plague. Marsh fever (2700 BCE-1902) ; Black vomit (1793-1953) ; Jail fever (1489-1958) ; Black death (541-1922)
War. Synthetic chemicals of war (423 BCE-1920) ; Zyklon (1917-1947) ; DDT (1939-1950) ; I. G. Farben (1916-1959)
Ecology. Resistance (1945-1962) ; Silent Spring (1962-1964) ; Wonder and humility (1962-The Future).