The Death of Ramón González 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 Ramón González 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.