
Defoliation of America
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- Intro
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Defoliation of America: Chemical Uses and Protests in Post-1945 America
- PART ONE. The Origins of the Phenoxy Herbicide Uses and Protests, 1940-70
- Chapter One. Controlling Jungle Lawns and Jungle Wars Domestic and International Uses of the Phenoxy Herbicides
- Chapter Two. The Quickening Conscience Seminarians, Students, and Scientists Protest the Phenoxy Herbicides
- Chapter Three. Ecological Disruption in Vietnam International Protests over Crop Destruction, Defoliation, and Ecological Imperialism
- PART TWO. Three Cases in the West Arizona, California, and Oregon, 1960-80
- Chapter Four. Water in the West Billee Shoecraft and Herbicide Use in Arizona
- Chapter Five. Fires, Farms, Forests Ida Honorof and Herbicide Use in California
- Chapter Six. Timber and Rights-of-Way Carol Van Strum and Herbicide Spraying in Oregon
- PART THREE. The Phenoxy Herbicides' Toxic Legacies, 1970-95
- Chapter Seven. The War on Drugs The Phenoxy Herbicides in Counterinsurgency and the Counterculture
- Chapter Eight. Fighting the Deadly Fog Vietnam Veterans Protest Agent Orange Herbicides
- Chapter Nine. Unexpected Casualties The Phenoxy Herbicides and Reproductive Harm
- Conclusion. The Dissenters: Citizens Protest Chemical Herbicides
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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