Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Tables ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1. The American Dependence on Imported Rubber: The Lessons of Revolution and War, 1911–1922 22
8. Chapter 2. Domestic Rubber Crops in an Era of Nationalism and Internationalism 45
9. Chapter 3. Thomas Edison and the Challenges of the New Rubber Crops 74
10. Chapter 4. The Nadir of Rubber Crop Research, 1928–1941 107
11. Chapter 5. Crops in War: Rubber Plant Research on the Grand Scale 140
12. Chapter 6. Sustainable Rubber from Grain: The Gillette Committee and the Battles over Synthetic Rubber 171
13. Chapter 7. Resistance to Domestic Rubber Crops and the Decline of the Emergency Rubber Project 198
14. Chapter 8. From Domestic Rubber Crops to Biotechnology 226
15. Notes 237
16. Index 307
17. About the Author 319