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