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          NEXUS: New Histories Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture & Medicine

          NEXUS is devoted to the publication of high-quality scholarship in the history of the sciences and allied fields. Its broad reach encompasses science, technology, the environment, agriculture, and medicine, but also includes intersections with other types of knowledge. Its essential concern is with the interface of nature and culture, broadly conceived, and it embraces an emerging intellectual constellation of new syntheses, methods, and approaches in the study of people and nature through time. Read more . . .

          Series Editors:
          Alan I Marcus (aimarcus [at] history [dot] msstate [dot] edu)
          Mark D. Hersey (MHersey [at] history [dot] msstate [dot] edu)
          Alexandra E. Hui (AHui [at] history [dot] msstate [dot] edu)
          Acquisitions Editor: Claire Lewis Evans (cevans [at] uapress [dot] ua [dot] edu)

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          Atomic Environments

          Atomic Environments

          Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945–1960

          by Neil Shafer Oatsvall

          Price: $49.95

          ISBN: 9780817321468

          Pub Date: February 2023

          Format: Hardcover

          Demonstrates how policymakers influenced environmental science during the early nuclear age
           
          The Defoliation of America

          The Defoliation of America

          Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests

          by Amy Marie Hay

          Foreword by Mark D. Hersey

          Price: $49.95

          ISBN: 9780817321086

          Pub Date: December 2021

          Format: Hardcover

          Examines the domestic and international use of phenoxy herbicides by the United States in the mid-twentieth century

           
          Life Out of Balance

          Life Out of Balance

          Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World

          by Joel B. Hagen

          Foreword by Alexandra Evonne Hui

          Price: $59.95

          ISBN: 9780817320898

          Pub Date: April 2021

          Format: Hardcover

          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

          The Green Revolution in the Global South

          Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences

          by R. Douglas Hurt

          Foreword by Alan I Marcus

          Price: $49.95

          ISBN: 9780817320515

          Pub Date: March 2020

          Format: Hardcover

          A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution
          Chemical Lands

          Chemical Lands

          Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945

          by David D. Vail

          Price: $39.95

          ISBN: 9780817319731

          Pub Date: January 2018

          Format: Hardcover

          An exploration of the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment
          Heightened Expectations

          Heightened Expectations

          The Rise of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America

          by Aimee Medeiros

          Price: $39.95

          ISBN: 9780817319106

          Pub Date: March 2016

          Format: Hardcover

          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

          Service as Mandate

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

          Edited by Alan I Marcus

          Contributions by Alan I Marcus, Amy Sue Bix, Gwen Kay, Valerie Grim, Anne B. Effland, David L. Harmon, Donald Alexander Downs, Erinn McComb, Stephanie Statz, Hamilton Cravens, Melissa Walker, Robert C. McMath and R. Douglas Hurt

          Price: $59.95

          ISBN: 9780817318888

          Pub Date: December 2015

          Format: Hardcover

          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

          Science as Service

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

          Edited by Alan I Marcus

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

          Price: $59.95

          ISBN: 9780817318680

          Pub Date: August 2015

          Format: Hardcover

          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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