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First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology

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Jack Ralph Kloppenburg, Jr.
2005
Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
Series: Science and Technology in Society
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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

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page, Copyright

Contents

List of tables

pp. x-xi

List of figures

pp. xii-xii

Preface to the second edition

pp. xiii-xiv

Preface to the first edition

pp. xv-xviii

Acknowledgments

pp. xix-xx

Lists of abbreviations

pp. xxi-xxii

1. Introduction

pp. 1-18

2. Science, agriculture, and social change

pp. 19-49

3. The genetic foundation of American agriculture

pp. 50-65

4. Public science ascendant: plant breeding comes of age

pp. 66-90

5. Heterosis and the social division of labor

pp. 91-129

6. Plant breeders' rights and the social division of labor: historical perspective

pp. 130-151

7. Seeds of strugle; plant genetic resources in teh world system

pp. 152-190

8. Outdoing evolution: biotechnology, botany, and business

pp. 191-241

9. Directions for deployment

pp. 242-277

10. Conclusion

pp. 278-290

11. Still the seed: plant biotechnology in the twenty-first century

pp. 291-354

Notes

pp. 355-378

References

pp. 379-420

Index

pp. 421-426
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