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: Daniel Waterman (waterman [at] uapress [dot] ua [dot] edu)
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.
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.
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.
