R. Douglas Hurt

R. Douglas Hurt is professor of history at Iowa State University. He is also the author of The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830.

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Service as Mandate

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

Edited by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press

Completing a comprehensive history of America’s land-grant universities begun in Science as Service, the thirteen original essays in Service as Mandate examine how these great institutions both changed and were changed by the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Green Revolution in the Global South

Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences

University of Alabama Press

A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution

  • Copyright year: 2020
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