...Michelle Mart Ghostworkers and Greens: The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform . By Adam Tompkins . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2016 . 248 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-5017-0448-2 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society...

...Thomas Roberston DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide that Changed the World . By David Kinkela . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2011 . 272 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8078-3509-8 . © the Agricultural...

...Frederick R. Davis The Law and Ecology of Pesticides and Pest Management . By Mary Jane Angelo . Burlington : Ashgate Publishing , 2013 . 264 pp., $124.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7546-7431-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book Reviews (267). Intensive...

... the Clean Water Act. Christopher J. Manganiello Georgia River Network Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology. By Frederick Rowe Davis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 288 pp., $40.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-20517-6. It has been more than fifty years since Rachel Carson s...

...David K. Hecht Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945 . By David D. Vail . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2018 . 168 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8173-1973-1 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018...

...Karen-Beth G. Scholthof Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides: An Economic Approach . Ramanan Laxminarayan . An Introduction to Arthropod Pest Control . J. R. M. Thacker . Copyright 2003 Agricultural History Society 2003 Book Reviews / 623 Walbert is on firmer...

...Gordon M. Patterson Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post World War II South . Pete Daniel . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews ToxicDrift:PesticidesandHealth in thePostWorldWar II South.By Pete Daniel. Baton Rouge: Louisiana...

... of Mississippi Pesticides, A Love Story: America s Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals. By Michelle Mart. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015. 336 pp., $34.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-7006-2128-6. A multitude of scholars, scientists, and policymakers have struggled to explain why pesticide use went up...

... and excessive pesticide usage. The article considers responses to these challenges that offer promising prospects for a sustainable agricultural future in Israel. Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Notes 1 Richard Gottheil and Théodore Reinach, "The Diaspora," Jewish...

...,” Saveur , June 20, 2011, https://www.saveur.com/article/Travels/Sweet-Crusade-Swanton-Berry-Farm (accessed Apr. 9, 2019); Felicia Mello, “Hard Labor: The Organic Label Means Your Food is Pesticide-Free, but An Investigation into California Farms Reveals that the Label Means Nothing but Pain...

... required major inputs of chemicals in the form of pesticides and fertilizers. Both environmental impacts and human health effects correspond to chemicals in agriculture. Yet, Angelo notes, US Farm Policy continues to encourage highyield monoculture and intense chemical-input industrial agriculture...

... chapter. Her history of carnivorism seems indefensibly incomplete without a critical assessment of the evolving relationships between humans and the nonhuman animals whose lives are at stake. Jennifer Jensen Wallach University of North Texas The Law and Ecology of Pesticides and Pest Management. By Mary...

.... Olsson, Agrarian Crossings , 153-54; Ochoa, Feeding Mexico , 101; Gladys McCormick, The Logic of Compromise in Mexico: How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016), 5-6; Jacob George Harrar, “Fertilizer and Pesticide Use...

... in promoting the use of insecticides in the post–World War II period. This essay suggests that a look at deviations from the USDA approach exist, particularly in Arkansas, but also elsewhere. Daniel , Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post–World War II South ( Baton Rouge : Louisiana State...

... Toxic Injustice: A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle. By Susanna rankin Bohme. oakland: university of california Press, 2015. 360 pp., $29.95, paperback, iSBn 978-0-520-27899-8. Pesticide hazards have posed a serious environmental and public health concern since rachel carson published...

... (245). The importance ofWright's book originally sprang from its broad cov erage of subject material. Building off the death of one agricultural field worker, a young Mixtec migrant male who probably died from pesticide poisoning in the intensive export agricultural region of theCuliacain, Wright...

... conclusion is that growers were often successful at defeating reforms, because they worked hard to make pesticides and the workers who applied them invisible: Growers consciously masked the chemical and human inputs of agricultural production, characterizing their produce as spontaneous creations of nature...

... Disulfide (80/20 Fumigants) and Other Pesticides in Grain Storage Workers,” Acta Pharmacologica et Toxicologica 59 : 7 ( 1986 ): 535 – 46 ; Margaret Reeves and Kristin S. Schafer , “Greater Risks, Fewer Rights: US Farmworkers and Pesticides,” International Journal of Occupational...

... are the same as non-organic because no residues of pesticide are allowed on [non-organic] apples at the point of sale. . . . That organic produce has no residue of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides is obvious, given that they are forbidden in organic farming (224). Problems from agricultural...

... imperative language when presenting the case for Roundup-readystyle agriculture: weeds have to be destroyed, which is only possible with chemicals, so the crops need to be made resistant to herbicide. Organic apples are the same as non-organic because no residues of pesticide are allowed on [non-organic...