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The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests (NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine) by Amy Marie Hay; Mark D. Hersey is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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"In The Defoliation of America, Amy M. Hay profiles the attitudes, understandings, and motivations of grassroots activists who rose to fight the use of phenoxy herbicides (commonly known as the Agent Orange chemicals) in various aspects of American life during the post-WWII era. First introduced in 1946, these chemicals mimic hormones in broadleaf plants, causing them to, essentially, grow to death while grass, grains, and other monocots remain unaffected. By the 1950s, millions of pounds of che
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Amy Marie Hay; Mark D. Hersey
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780817321086
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Agriculture, History, Stem
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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