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A New Order of Medicine

|9780822945604|The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg|The sixteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the number of educated physicians practicing in German cities. Concentrating on Nuremberg, A New Order of…

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More than Moonshine

…they could scour from the gardens and hillsides. With instructions for making moonshine whiskey, for fixing baked groundhog with sweet potatoes, for making turnip kraut, cracklin’ bread, egg pie, apple…

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City At The Point

…useful for undergraduate and graduate courses on environmental politics and policy making, or as a supplement for courses on public policy making generally. | Samuel P. Hays| Regional| History /…

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The Art of Freedom

|9780822967620|Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India|Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903–1988) was a prominent socialist, anticolonial and antiracist activist, champion of women’s rights, and advocate for the arts and crafts. Defying…

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History and Context in Comparative Public Policy

…confined to prevailing methods of social science. Policy-making behavior involves historical, contextual, and philosophical factors that also raise critical questions about the concepts and theory of the discipline. Ashford asks…

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