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Atomic Environments
Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945–1960
University of Alabama Press
Demonstrates how policymakers influenced environmental science during the early nuclear age
The Defoliation of America
Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests
By Amy Marie Hay; Foreword by Mark D. Hersey
University of Alabama Press
Examines the domestic and international use of phenoxy herbicides by the United States in the mid-twentieth century
Life Out of Balance
Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World
By Joel B. Hagen; Foreword by Alexandra Evonne Hui
University of Alabama Press
Traces historical developments in scientific conceptions of physiology, ecology, behavior, and evolutionary biology during the mid-twentieth century
The Green Revolution in the Global South
Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences
By R. Douglas Hurt; Foreword by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press
A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution
Chemical Lands
Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945
University of Alabama Press
An exploration of the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment
Heightened Expectations
The Rise of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America
University of Alabama Press
Heightened Expectations explores the complex relationship between the history of the social stigmatization of short stature in boys and the rise of the multibillion-dollar human growth hormone industry.
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.
Science as Service
Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930
Edited by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press
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.
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