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growing american rubber strategic plants and the politics of national security
growing american rubber explores americas quest during tense decades of the twentieth century to identify a viable source of domestic rubber . straddling international revolutions and world wars this unique and well researched history chronicles efforts of leaders in business science and government to sever american dependence on foreign suppliers . mark finlay plots out intersecting networks of actors including thomas edison henry ford prominent botanists interned japanese americans haitian peasants and ordinary citizensuall of whom contributed to this search for economic self sufficiency . challenging once familiar boundaries between agriculture and industry and field and laboratory finlay also identifies an era in which perceived boundaries between natural and synthetic came under review . p although synthetic rubber emerged from world war ii as one solution the issue of ever diminishing natural resources and the question of how to meet twenty first century consumer military and business demands lingers today .