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)
Six Women Who Shaped What Americans Eat tells the stories of six women whose lives and careers influenced American food culture: Hazel Stiebeling, Poppy Cannon, Julia Child, Frances Moore Lappé, Marion...
Market Hunters, Sportsmen, and Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas
by Buckley T. Foster
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817361877
Pub Date: March 2025
Format: Paperback
By 1925, market hunters had harvested almost every deer, bear, turkey, and quail population in the state of Arkansas, having completely eradicated bison, the prairie chicken, and the passenger pigeon....
Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870–1970
by Jack D. Ellis
Foreword by Alan I Marcus
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817361860
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Paperback
In Physicians for the People, Jack D. Ellis illuminates the post-Civil War lives of Black physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and midwives, highlighting both the causes of health care disparities among African Americans and the reasons for their continued underrepresentation in medical professions.
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.
