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  • Agricultural Scientists

    A Cultural History

    de Alan I Marcus ...
    Tracing the history of agricultural scientists in the United States from the colonial period to the present, Agricultural Scientists: A Cultural History explores the premise that culture has dictated and constrained how agricultural scientists approach their work through the centuries.Beginning in the 1700s, Alan I Marcus examines the emergence of agricultural scientists in the United States and ... Leer más

    $37.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Physicians for the People

    Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870–1970

    de Jack D. Ellis ...
    Series series NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    WINNER OF THE JAMES F. SULZBY AWARDHealing against the odds—Black doctors, bold resistance, and the fight for medical justice in Alabama.Physicians for the People chronicles the remarkable stories of 241 Black doctors who practiced medicine in Alabama during the Jim Crow era. Historian Jack D. Ellis reveals the ingenuity and resilience of these trailblazing doctors who defied segregation by ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Land of Milk and Money

    The Creation of the Southern Dairy Industry

    de Alan I. Marcus ...
    In Land of Milk and Money*,* Alan I Marcus examines the establishment of the dairy industry in the United States South during the 1920s. Looking specifically at the internal history of the Borden Company—the world’s largest dairy firm—as well as small-town efforts to lure industry and manufacturing south, Marcus suggests that the rise of the modern dairy business resulted from debates and ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Science as Service

    Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930

    de Alan I Marcus, Robert B. Fairbanks, Dr. Roger L. Geiger, Dr. Mark R. Finlay, Dr. Paul K. Nienkamp, Ph.D., Dr. Sara E. Morris, Dr. Nathan M. Sorber, Micah Rueber, Dr. Debra A. Reid, Ph.D., Richard F. Hirsh0, Dr. Bruce E. Seely1 ...
    Series Libro 1 - NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded account of the successes and set-backs of these institutions during the first sixty-five years of ... Leer más

    $43.19 USD

  • The Green Revolution in the Global South

    Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences

    de R. Douglas Hurt ...
    Series series NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green RevolutionThe 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, pesticides, herbicides, and a multitude of other techniques to increase yields and feed a mushrooming human ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Technology in America

    A Brief History

    de Alan I. Marcus, Howard P. Segal ...
    Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology in America from the 1600s to the 21st century. Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal explore the effect society, culture, politics and economics have had upon technological advances, and place the evolution of American technology within the broader context of the development of systems such as ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Malignant Growth

    Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915

    de Alan I Marcus ...
    An examination of the first attempt to conquer cancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.In Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915, Alan I Marcus explores a relatively understudied period in the history of cancer by providing a careful investigation of the first public crusade to determine the cause of cancer. The search for cancer’s cause ... Leer más

    $43.19 USD

  • Service as Mandate

    How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015

    de Alan I Marcus, Amy Sue Bix, Gwen Kay, Valerie Grim, Anne B. Effland, David L. Harmon, Donald Alexander Downs, Erinn McComb, Robert C. McMath, R. Douglas Hurt0, Mr. Hamilton Cravens1, Stephanie Statz2, Mr. Melissa Walker3 ...
    Series Libro 2 - NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America’s land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus’s second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these universities have adapted to meet the challenges of the past sixty-five years and how, having done so, ... Leer más

    $43.19 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Physicians for the People

    Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870–1970

    de Jack D. Ellis ...
    Narrado por Bill Andrew Quinn ...

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    7 hora 49 minutos

    Physicians for the People chronicles the remarkable stories of 241 Black doctors who practiced medicine in Alabama during the Jim Crow era. Historian Jack D. Ellis reveals the ingenuity and resilience of these trailblazing doctors who defied segregation by establishing hospitals and clinics and providing vital healthcare to underserved Black communities.This meticulously researched work draws on ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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  • Born in the Country

    A History of Rural America

    de David B. Danbom ...
    Series series Revisiting Rural America
    Updated edition: "A balanced economic, social, political, and technological history of rural America . . . A splendid book, rich with detail." — Agricultural History ReviewThrough most of its history, America has been a rural nation, largely made up of farmers. David B. Danbom's Born in the Country was the first—and is still the only—general history of rural America. Ranging from pre-Columbian ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Consuming Power

    A Social History of American Energies

    de David E. Nye ...
    Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities.How did the United States become the world's largest consumer of energy? David Nye shows that this is less a question about the development of technology than it is a question about the development of culture. In Consuming Power, Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • The Search for the Ultimate Sink

    Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective

    de Joel A. Tarr ...
    Whether it comes by air, by land, or by water, pollution has long plagued the American city. And for just as long, the question of how to deal with urban wastes has taxed the minds of scientists, engineers, and public officials - and the pocketbooks of ordinary citizens. For more than twenty years, Joel A. Tarr has written about the issues of urban pollution. In this collection of his essays, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus