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03242aam a2200493 i 4500 001 375AF4BAEF6911EBB8061DD04AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210728010108 008 191011t20202020iluab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019046215 020 $a 022669724X 020 $a 9780226697246 035 $a (OCoLC)1117633408 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d TOH $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d YDX $d VP@ $d CGU $d S1C $d GWL $d OCLCO $d ZKK $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a TD196.P38 $b V66 2020 082 00 $a 632/.9509 $2 23 100 1 $a Von Hippel, Frank A. $q (Frank Arthur), $e author. 245 14 $a The chemical age : $b how chemists fought famine and disease, killed millions, and changed our relationship with the Earth / $c Frank A. von Hippel. 264 1 $a Chicago ; $b The University of Chicago Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xiii, 389 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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). 520 $a "It has been nearly 60 years since the publication of Silent Spring, in which Rachel Carson brought to light evidence of the devastating ecological effects of pesticides. This book, by Frank von Hippel, is a history of these chemicals and our complicated relationship with them. It shows how they've made the modern world possible, while at the same time threatening its essential fabric. 'This book starts with a tragedy that led scientists on an urgent mission to prevent famine with chemicals,' von Hippel writes in his manuscript's Prologue. 'It ends with the realization that those chemicals were insidiously damaging human health and driving species toward extinction.' Along the way, we learn how pesticides' destructive legacy led to the environmental movement and made possible a new era of ecological thinking"-- $c Provided by the publisher. 650 0 $a Pesticides $x Environmental aspects. 650 0 $a Chemical industry $x Environmental aspects. 650 0 $a Chemical weapons $x History. 650 0 $a Human ecology $x History. 650 0 $a Environmentalism $x History. 650 7 $a TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Pest Control. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Chemical industry $x Environmental aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00852969 650 7 $a Chemical weapons. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00853245 650 7 $a Environmentalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00913543 650 7 $a Human ecology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00962941 650 7 $a Pesticides. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01059011 650 7 $a Pesticides $x Environmental aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01059032 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 4 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20221008011645.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20220209010111.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20211201010513.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20210728010957.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=375AF4BAEF6911EBB8061DD04AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b UINInitiate Another SILO Locator Search