Lucius Polk Brown and Progressive Food and Drug Control Tennessee and New York City, 1908 -1920

• Main Author: Wolfe, Margaret Ripley (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University Press of Kansas 1978
• Subjects: History of the Americas
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Lucius Polk Brown was a professional chemist who became a bureaucrat in the field of public health during the Progressive era, when middleclass reformers first attempted to order American society through integrated systems. In his native state of Tennessee, between 1908 and 1915 Brown created a publ...