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First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology (Science and Technology in Society) (Paperback)

by Jack Ralph Kloppenburg Jr. (Author)

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"Kloppenburg is trying to put the thorny questions raised in the biotechnology debate into historical perspective."—Deborah Fitzgerald, ISIS

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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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Paperback: 468 pages
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press; 2 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 (View shipping rates and policies)

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Private Science: Biotechnology and the Rise of the Molecular Sciences (Chemical Sciences in Society) by Arnold Thackray on page 77, page 141, and page 178
Unnatural Selection: Technology, Politics and Plant Evolution (International Studies in Global Change) by Cary Fowler on page 28, page 234, and Back Matter
Trading the Genome: Investigating the Commodification of Bio-Information by Professor Bronwyn Parry in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Seeds and Sovereignty: Debate Over the Use and Control of Plant Genetic Resources by Jack R.Kloppenburg Jr. in Front Matter, and page 202
Privatization of Information and Agricultural Industrialization by Steven A. Wolf on page 92, and page 206

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This review is from: First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492-2000 (Hardcover)

"First the Seed" is a wonderfully documented account of the history of agriculture since the "discovery" of America. I found this book when I was doing research on threats to genetic diversity in Mexico under NAFTA and the book gave me an insightful lens to understand the problems that are occuring from the mechenization of agriculture and the patenting of genetic material.

Anyone who is studying food production systems must have this book in their library.

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