TY - GEN AU - Finlay, Mark R. ED - American Council of Learned Societies. TI - Growing American rubber: strategic plan ts and the politics of national security T2 - Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment PY - 2009/// CY - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Rubber industry and trade KW - United States KW - History KW - Rubber plants KW - Research N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-306) and index; The American dependence on imported rubber and the lessons of revolu tion and war, 1911-1922 -- Domestic rubber crops in an era of nationali sm and internationalism -- Thomas Edison and the challenges of the new rubber crops -- The nadir of rubber crop research, 1928-1941 -- Crops i n war: rubber plant research on the grand scale -- Sustainable rubber f rom grain: the Gillette Committee and the battles over synthetic rubber -- Resistance to domestic rubber crops and the decline of emergency ru bber project -- From domestic rubber crops to biotechnology; Electronic text and image data; Ann Arbor, Mich.; University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing; 2013; Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text; ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]); Mode of a ccess: Intranet UR - htt p://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.30890 ER -