Description: Explores the importance of public health for understanding the transformation of American power, both domestically and internationally, over the past century.
Brief description: Giles Scott-Smith is Professor of Transnational Relations and New Diplomatic History and Dean of Leiden University College at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Review Quotes:
Public Health and the American State features significant scholarship demonstrating the ways that the U.S. exercise of power and the provision of public health have shaped each other throughout the last century. This carefully curated collection produces that rare volume in which every essay is a must-read, posing new questions and avenues for future research.
--Anne Foster, Indiana State University