First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492-2000 by Jack R. Kloppenburg
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First the Seed
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This history of the scientific and commercial lines of plant development in the United States traces the transformation of the seed from a public good produced and reproduced by farmers into a commodity controlled by businesses and corporations divorced from the uses of their product.
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Table of Contents
Introduction; science, agriculture and social change; the genetic foundation of American agriculture; public science ascendant - plant breeding comes of age; heterosis and the social division of labour; plant breeders rights and the social division of labour - an historical perspective; seeds of struggle - germplasm resources in the world system; outdoing evolution - biotechnology, botany, and business; conclusion.
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CIN0521326915G
9780521326919
0521326915
First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492-2000 by Jack R. Kloppenburg
Used - Good
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
1988-04-29
368
N/A
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