NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine – serie
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17 produkter
Chemical Lands
Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America's Grasslands Since 1945
Inbunden, 2018
469 kr
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An exploration of the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment. The controversies in the 1960s and 1970s that swirled around indiscriminate use of agricultural chemicals–their long-term ecological harm versus food …
Green Revolution in the Global South
Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences
Inbunden, 2020
585 kr
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A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution.The Green Revolution was devised to increase agricultural production worldwide, particularly in the developing world. Agriculturalists employed anhydrous ammonia and other fertilizing agents, mechanical tilling, hybridized seeds, …
Life Out of Balance
Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World
Inbunden, 2021
682 kr
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Traces historical developments in physiology, ecology, behavior, and evolutionary biology during the decades following World War II.If natural selection constitutes the first law of biology, supporters claim that homeostasis is a second law, equally important and closely related to the first. Such …
Defoliation of America
Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests
Inbunden, 2021
582 kr
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Examines the domestic and international use of phenoxy herbicides by the United States in the mid-twentieth century.In The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests, Amy M. Hay profiles the attitudes, understandings, and motivations of grassroots activists who rose to …
Atomic Environments
Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945–1960
Inbunden, 2023
582 kr
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Demonstrates how policymakers influenced environmental science during the early nuclear ageIn Atomic Environments: Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945–1960, Neil S. Oatsvall examines how top officials in the Truman and Eisenhower administrations used environmental …
Physicians for the People
Black Doctors and the Struggle for Healthcare Equality in Alabama, 1870-1970
Inbunden, 2025
1271 kr
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In Physicians for the People, Jack D. Ellis illuminates the post-Civil War lives of Black physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and midwives, highlighting both the causes of health care disparities among African Americans and the reasons for their continued underrepresentation in medical …
So Great Was the Slaughter
Market Hunters, Sportsmen, and Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas
Inbunden, 2025
1271 kr
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Six Women Who Shaped What Americans Eat
Food Choice in an Age of Abundance
Inbunden, 2025
1234 kr
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Six Women Who Shaped What Americans Eat tells the stories of six women whose lives and careers influenced American food culture: Hazel Stiebeling, Poppy Cannon, Julia Child, Frances Moore LappÉ, Marion Nestle, and Alice Waters. Each of these women had a substantial impact on American cuisine, …
Math Mafia
How a Persistent Group of Reformers Standardized American Education
Inbunden, 2026
1271 kr
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How Cold War urgency, academic ambition, and federal power converged to make math the cornerstone of American education policy. The Math Mafia by Emily T. Hamilton is a historical account of mathematics education reform in twentieth-century America and how that movement played a role in shaping the …
Botanical Monroe Doctrine and American Empire
The Scientific Survey of Puerto Rico
Inbunden, 2027
1271 kr
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Explores how a US-led natural history survey of Puerto Rico served American Empire while yet catalyzing Boricua cultural nationalism In Botanical Monroe Doctrine and American Empire , Darryl E. Brock interrogates the history, trajectory, and influence of an ambitious initiative to conduct a …
Physicians for the People
Black Doctors and the Struggle for Healthcare Equality in Alabama, 1870-1970
Häftad, 2025
398 kr
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In Physicians for the People, Jack D. Ellis illuminates the post-Civil War lives of Black physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and midwives, highlighting both the causes of health care disparities among African Americans and the reasons for their continued underrepresentation in medical …
So Great Was the Slaughter
Market Hunters, Sportsmen, and Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas
Häftad, 2025
398 kr
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Six Women Who Shaped What Americans Eat
Food Choice in an Age of Abundance
Häftad, 2025
387 kr
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Six Women Who Shaped What Americans Eat tells the stories of six women whose lives and careers influenced American food culture: Hazel Stiebeling, Poppy Cannon, Julia Child, Frances Moore LappÉ, Marion Nestle, and Alice Waters. Each of these women had a substantial impact on American cuisine, …
Chemical Lands
Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America's Grasslands Since 1945
Häftad, 2025
340 kr
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An exploration of the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment.The controversies in the 1960s and 1970s that swirled around indiscriminate use of agricultural chemicals—their long-term ecological harm versus food …
Math Mafia
How a Persistent Group of Reformers Standardized American Education
Häftad, 2026
367 kr
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How Cold War urgency, academic ambition, and federal power converged to make math the cornerstone of American education policy. The Math Mafia by Emily T. Hamilton is a historical account of mathematics education reform in twentieth-century America and how that movement played a role in shaping the …
Botanical Monroe Doctrine and American Empire
The Scientific Survey of Puerto Rico
Häftad, 2027
430 kr
Kommande
Explores how a US-led natural history survey of Puerto Rico served American Empire while yet catalyzing Boricua cultural nationalism In Botanical Monroe Doctrine and American Empire , Darryl E. Brock interrogates the history, trajectory, and influence of an ambitious initiative to conduct a …
Science As Service
Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865-1930
Inbunden, 2015
676 kr
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Science as Service is a collection of essays that traces the development of the land-grant colleges established by the Morrill Act of 1862, and documents how their faith and efforts in science and technology gave credibility and power to these institutions and their scientists.Science as Service: …
