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Six Women Who Shaped What Americans Eat

Food Choice in an Age of Abundance

University of Alabama Press
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Chemical Lands

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

University of Alabama Press
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So Great Was the Slaughter

Market Hunters, Sportsmen, and Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas

University of Alabama Press

An account of the rise of sportsmen and conservation groups in Arkansas who made common cause to save the state’s wildlife resources

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Physicians for the People

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

University of Alabama Press

A comprehensive historical account of race and healthcare in the segregated South

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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
 

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The Defoliation of America

Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests

University of Alabama Press

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

 

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Life Out of Balance

Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World

University of Alabama Press

Traces historical developments in scientific conceptions of physiology, ecology, behavior, and evolutionary biology during the mid-twentieth century
 

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The Green Revolution in the Global South

Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences

University of Alabama Press

A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution

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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

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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.

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