The chemical age : how chemists fought famine and disease, killed millions, and changed our relationship with the Earth /

Tells the story of the scientists who waged war on famine and disease with chemistry. Von Hippel explores humanity’s uneasy coexistence with pests, and how their existence, and the battles to exterminate them, have shaped our modern world. Beginning with the potato blight tragedy of the 1840s, von H...

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Main Author:	Von Hippel, Frank A. (Frank Arthur) (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Pesticides > Environmental aspects. Chemical industry > Environmental aspects. Chemical weapons > History. Human ecology > History. Environmentalism > History. Chemical weapons. Environmentalism. Human ecology. Pesticides. History.

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