Bøger af Pete Daniel

Takes readers behind the Staff Only door at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to reveal how curators collect objects, plan exhibits, and bring alive complex and exciting history. In vivid detail, Pete Daniel recounts the exhilaration of innovative research, the joys of collaboration, and the rewards of mentoring new generations.

Following World War II, chemical companies and agricultural experts promoted the use of synthetic chemicals as pesticides on weeds and insects. It was, Pete Daniel points out, a convenient way for companies to apply their wartime research to the domestic market. In Toxic Drift, Daniel documents the particularly disastrous effects this campaign had on the South's public health and environment, exposing the careless mentality that allowed pesticide application to swerve out of control. The quest to destroy pests, Daniel contends, unfortunately outran research on insect resistance, ignored environmental damage, and downplayed the dangers of residue accumulation and threats to fish, wildlife, domestic animals, and humans. Using legal sources, archival records, newspapers, and congressional hearings, Daniel constructs a moving, fact-filled account of the use, abuse, and regulation of pesticides from World War II until 1970.

This volume explores a time of startling turbulence and change in the South. The author chronicles the myriad forces that turned the world southerners had known upside down in the post-war period. Topics include the civil rights movement, segregation, and school integration.

Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights