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Physicians for the People

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

by 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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more

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Land of Milk and Money

The Creation of the Southern Dairy Industry

by 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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
Science as Service

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

by Alan I Marcus, Nathan M. Sorber, Micah Rueber, Debra A. Reid, Robert B. Fairbanks, Richard F. Hirsh, Bruce E. Seely, Dr. Roger L. Geiger, Dr. Mark R. Finlay, Dr. Paul K. Nienkamp, Ph.D.0, Dr. Sara E. Morris1 ...

Series Book 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 ... Read more

$43.19 USD

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
... Read more
The Green Revolution in the Global South

Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences

by 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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
Technology in America

A Brief History

by 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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
Malignant Growth

Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915

by 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 ... Read more

$43.19 USD

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
... Read more
Service as Mandate

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

by Alan I Marcus, Amy Sue Bix, Gwen Kay, Valerie Grim, Anne B. Effland, David L. Harmon, Donald Alexander Downs, Erinn McComb, Stephanie Statz, Melissa Walker0, Robert C. McMath1, R. Douglas Hurt2, Mr. Hamilton Cravens3 ...

Series Book 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, ... Read more

$43.19 USD

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,
... Read more
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Physicians for the People

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

by Jack D. Ellis ...

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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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more

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The Tycoons

How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

by Charles R. Morris ...

"Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."—The Christian Science MonitorThe modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most ... Read more

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"Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."—The Christian Science MonitorThe modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most
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Accidental Medical Discoveries

How Tenacity and Pure Dumb Luck Changed the World

by Robert W. Winters ...

Many of the world’s most important and life-saving devices and techniques were often discovered purely by accident. Serendipity, timing, and luck played a part in the discovery of unintentional cures and breakthroughs:A plastic shard in an RAF pilot’s eye leads to the use of plastic for contact lenses.The inability to remove a titanium chamber from rabbit’s bone leads to dental implants.Viagra was ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Many of the world’s most important and life-saving devices and techniques were often discovered purely by accident. Serendipity, timing, and luck played a part in the discovery of unintentional cures and breakthroughs:A plastic shard in an RAF pilot’s eye leads to the use of plastic for contact lenses.The inability to remove a titanium chamber from rabbit’s bone leads to dental implants.Viagra was
... Read more
Americana

A 400-Year History of American Capitalism

by Bhu Srinivasan ...

**An absorbing and original narrative history of American capitalismNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE ECONOMIST**From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a four-hundred-year journey of this spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next ... Read more

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**An absorbing and original narrative history of American capitalismNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE ECONOMIST**From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a four-hundred-year journey of this spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next
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Medical Apartheid

The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

by Harriet A. Washington ...

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book."[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, ... Read more

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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book."[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting,
... Read more

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