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The essay focuses on the entanglement of natural resources, progress, and security in the United States. It argues that Progressive Era politics and culture were crucial for the process of securitization of raw materials and that geologists and natural scientists working for the Department of the Interior were the first to grasp the transformations imposed by the use of oil, thus making the case for the "control" of supply. The essay also introduces a research agenda for a project that looks at American power's environmental and human health implications by investigating oil pollution in water in the early twentieth century.

The dissertation investigates the origins of Washington's interest in petroleum and the elements that originally shaped the country's foreign oil policy in the early twentieth century. The chapters center on the analysis of the American political debate and give special consideration to the international race to secure oil concessions in the Middle East that began before WWI and that culminated in the early 1920s. The study follows the establishment of a new, more assertive stance towards the securing of sources of supply in U.S. politics, and looks at the parallel evolution of concept of national interest. In examining the process of actual policy-formation, the research looks into the discussion between the various branches and departments of the administration, as well as between the federal government and the other private actors involved in petroleum exploration and production. The aim is to reconstruct the arguments that were used to support Washington's drive toward the acquisition of petroleum supply, in order to understand how the access to oil resources – both at home and abroad – was presented, justified, and pursued before the American public.

Explores how public health concerns and political agendas influenced each other in the US over the past centuryProvides a comparison of the Spanish Flu and Covid-19 pandemics, giving insights into how the US government responded and what has been learned over the past centuryCovers how responses to disease have stratified society along race, gender, and class lines, furthering inequality instead of improving public healthIncludes cross-disciplinary studies, ranging from the hisoty of medicine to social history, economics and cultural studiesIncludes case studies which are based on unique research on specific threats to public health such as polio, diabetes, HIV-AIDS, and TuberculosisThe case studies critically examine the varying governmental and market-based responses to public health crises, and how these have changed and clashed over timeThis book offers an insightful discussion of the complex relationship between public health, US democracy and power during the so-called American century. It sheds light on the intricate history of the US public health system, examining how the development of the federal government has shaped its trajectory. By exploring the intertwined roles of politics, race and socio-economic factors, the contributors uncover the challenges and contradictions of public health in the US from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19. They also investigate the connections between public health and America's aspirations as a global power, as well as its domestic implications for social cohesion and institutional legitimacy. The focus on the American century provides a critical historical timeframe for an in-depth understanding of the connections between public health, people and power, on both the domestic and global stages