Description: Explores the importance of public health for understanding the transformation of American power, both domestically and internationally, over the past century.
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Gaetano Di Tommaso is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS), The Netherlands.
Gaetano Di Tommaso is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg, The Netherlands, and a lecturer at Radboud University. His research centers on the role of natural resources in U.S. history, with a particular focus on the Progressive Era. His work looks specifically at the extraction and use of specific raw materials, such as fossil fuels, examining their impact on life and politics across diverse scales, from local environments and communities in the U.S. to international governance and global ecosystems.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