TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finlay,Mark R.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Growing American rubber: strategic plants and the politics of national security 
T2  - Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment
AV  - HD9161.U52 F56 2009eb
U1  - 633.8/95 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Rubber industry and trade
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Rubber plants
KW  - Research
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-306) and index; The American dependence on imported rubber : the lessons of revolution and war, 1911-1922 -- Domestic rubber crops in an era of nationalism and internationalism -- Thomas Edison and the challenges of the new rubber crops -- The nadir of rubber crop research, 1928-1941 -- Crops in war : rubber plant research on the grand scale -- Sustainable rubber from grain : the Gillette Committee and the battles over synthetic rubber -- Resistance to domestic rubber crops and the decline of the Emergency Rubber Project -- From domestic rubber crops to biotechnology; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/welingkar/Doc?id=10393232
ER  -