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

Paperback – March 16, 2005
by Kloppenberg, Jack Ralph, Jr.
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ISBN-13: 9780299192440 ISBN-10: 029919244X
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Binding
Paperback
Published
March 16, 2005
Weight
1.3 lbs
Dimensions
2.60×15.70×22.80 cm

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First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology (Science and Technology in Society) by Kloppenberg, Jack Ralph, Jr.. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780299192440.

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