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First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology (Science and Technology in... by Jack Ralph Kloppenburg Sales Rank : 596436

Paperback: 468 pages Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press; 2nd edition March 16, 2005 Language: English ISBN-10: 029919244X ISBN-13: 978-0299192440 Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds Product Review "Kloppenburg is trying to put the thorny questions raised in the biotechnology debate into historical perspective."—Deborah Fitzgerald, ISIS Product Description First the Seed spotlights the history of plant breeding and shows how efforts to control the seed have shaped the emergence of the agricultural biotechnology industry. This second edition of a classic work in the political economy of science includes an extensive, new chapter updating the analysis to include the most recent developments in the struggle over the direction of crop genetic engineering. 1988 Cloth, 1990 Paperback, Cambridge University Press Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Agricultural History Society Winner of the Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological Association

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