From reviews of the first edition: "Angus Wright has shown in a
brilliant study [how] the imposition of high-yield agriculture
helped to break apart the intimate relationship between cultures
and ecosystems that had coevolved over long periods of
time."--David W. Orr, from Earth in Mind: On Education,
Environment, and the Human Prospect"The Death of Ramon Gonzalez is
a blockbuster. In a dramatic, readable story, Wright has provided a
new way of looking at the tragic human and environmental
consequences of chemical-dependent agriculture."--Wes Jackson, The
Land Institute
The Death of Ramon Gonzalez has become a benchmark book since
its publication in 1990. It has been taught in undergraduate and
graduate courses in every social science discipline, sustainable
and alternative agriculture, environmental studies, ecology, ethnic
studies, public health, and Mexican, Latin American, and
environmental history. The book has also been used at the
University of California-Santa Cruz as a model of interdisciplinary
work and at the University of Iowa as a model of fine journalism,
and has inspired numerous other books, theses, films, and
investigative journalism pieces.
This revised edition of The Death of Ramon Gonzalez updates the
science and politics of pesticides and agricultural development. In
a new afterword, Angus Wright reconsiders the book's central ideas
within the context of globalization, trade liberalization, and
NAFTA, showing that in many ways what he called "the modern
agricultural dilemma" should now be thought of as a "twenty-first
century dilemma" that involves far more than agriculture.
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