Chemical Lands by David D Vail

Chemical Lands by David D Vail

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An exploration of the relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment. David D. Vail’s analysis reveals a strong ethic in the North American grasslands where practitioners sought to deploy insecticides by designing local scientific experiments, engineering more precise aircraft sprayers, and developing more narrowly specific chemicals.

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Chemical Lands by David D Vail

An exploration of the relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment. David D. Vail's analysis reveals a strong ethic in the North American grasslands where practitioners sought to deploy insecticides by designing local scientific experiments, engineering more precise aircraft sprayers, and developing more narrowly specific chemicals.
In Chemical Lands, David Vail incisively documents the complex relationship between sprayers, pesticides, herbicides, and grassland landscapes in America and CanadaFor the first time, we can appreciate what was happening on the ground and in the sky through this thoughtful analysis of the sprayer's perspective on the toxic chemicals that became intrinsic to American agriculture."" - Frederick Rowe Davis, author of Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology
David D. Vail is an assistant professor of environmental and agricultural history at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
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ISBN 13 9780817319731
ISBN 10 0817319735
Title Chemical Lands
Author David Vail
Series Nexus
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher University Alabama Press
Year published 2018-01-09
Number of pages 168
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