First the seed : the political economy of plant biotechnology, 1492-2000

Author(s)

• Kloppenburg, Jack Ralph

Bibliographic Information

First the seed : the political economy of plant biotechnology, 1492-2000

Jack Ralph Kloppenburg, Jr

（Science and technology in society）

University of Wisconsin Press, c2004

2nd ed

• : pbk

Note

Originally published: [Cambridge] : Cambridge University Press, 1988

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-419) and index

Description and Table of Contents

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.

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Details

• NCID: BA72525251
• ISBN:
  • 029919244X
• LCCN: 2004053597
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Madison, Wis.
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 425 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : SB117.3
  • DC22 : 631.5/2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Seed industry and trade -- United States
  • LCSH : Plant breeding -- United States
  • LCSH : Plant biotechnology -- United States
  • LCSH : Seed industry and trade
  • LCSH : Plant breeding
  • LCSH : Plant biotechnology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA72525193