Geopolitics and the Green Revolution
Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War
John H. Perkins
Table of Contents
1.:Political Ecology and Yield Transformation
2.:Wheat, People, and Plant Breeding
3.:Wheat Breeding: Coalescence of a Modern Science, 1900-1939
4.:Plant Breeding in its Institutional and Political Economic Setting, 1900-1940
5.:The Rockefeller Foundation in Mexico: The New International Politics for Plant Breeding, 1941-1945
6.:Hunger, Overpopulation, and Natural Security: A New Strategic Theory for Plant Breeding, 1945-1956
7.:Wheat Breeding and the Exercise of American Power, 1940-1970
8.:Wheat Breeding and the Consolidation of Indian Autonomy, 1940-1970
9.:Wheat Breeding and the Reconstruction of Post-Imperial Britain, 1935-1954
10.:Science and the Green Revolution, 1945-1975
Epilogue: Implications of History the Future