DDT: Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy (Princeton Legacy Library) - Softcover

Dunlap, Thomas R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691005923 ISBN 13: 9780691005928

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1983

Synopsis

From the time the public learned of DDT's dramatic containment of a typhus epidemic in Naples during World War II to the ban on DDT by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1972, this is the story of the controversial pesticide and its part in the rise of the environmental movement.

Originally published in 1981.

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About the Author

Wolfgang Benz is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technische Universitat Berlin. Among his previous books is "The Holocaust (1997).

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691005923
• ISBN 13: 9780691005928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318