to insect damage. Chemicalinsecticides, which were first introduced in the early 1900s, require careful and selective use because of ecologicalconsiderationsbut appear to be the most effective and efficient means of control. Conventional cotton production requires more insecticides than any other major ...
Why was it that the part of the world that had the least to do with cotton—Europe—created and came to dominate the empire of cotton? Any reasonable observer in, say, 1700, would have expected the world’s cotton production to remain centered in India, or perhaps in China. And indeed...