Louisiana State University Press, 2005

Pete Daniel has written valuable books on southern agriculture and culture, Mississippi River floods, and much else, and now he adds to the too-small but growing library of books on the environment in southern history. His topic is an important new presence in the air, soil, and water of the twentieth-century South—new agricultural chemicals to control pests, and the controversies they produced when the new pesticides’ benefits to farmers also yielded serious animal and human health problems.