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Arcadia, Autumn 2017, no. 29

American Cockroaches, Racism, and the Ecology of the Slave Ship

Lindsay Garcia

Garcia follows the migration of the American cockroach from its tropical origins in western Africa via slave ships to the New World.

Arcadia, Autumn 2017, no. 28

Marshlands, Sanitation Policies, and Epidemic Fevers in Late-Eighteenth-Century Barcelona (1783–1786)

Kevin Pometti

A tertian fever epidemic occurred in Barcelona from 1783 to 1786 and affected approximately one million people.

Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 27

A Question of Origins: Skeletal Evidence in the History of Venereal Syphilis

Laura Lockau

This article studies the history of the debate regarding the origins of the venereal syphilis that “emerged” in Europe at the end of the fifteenth century.

Arcadia, Autumn 2017, no. 26

Creating Safety, Courting Disaster on the Lower Shinano River, Japan

Philip C. Brown

Engineering the Lower Shinano River in northeastern Japan expanded the risk of other flood and tsunami damage.

Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 25

An Unnatural History of Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado

Becky Alexis-Martin and Stephanie Malin

Exploring the cultural and environmental transformation of Rocky Flats from military industrial complex to protected habitat.

Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 24

Prevention or Poisoning? Dilemmas in Urban Rat Control

Gabriela Jarzebowska

Effective strategies for rat control based on ecology were invented in Baltimore in the 1940s. The program, however, did not last.

Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 23

Mobilization against Genetically Modified Organisms in Portugal

Sofia Bento, Lúcia de Oliveira Fernandes, Lays Helena Paes e Silva, and Oriana Rainho Brás

This article studies mobilization against GMOs in Portugal since the 1990s.

Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 22

The Mystery of the Merganser

Libby Robin

How Australian historical documents resolved questions about an unusual merganser specimen from Korea at the American Museum of Natural History.

Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 21

Ecological Impacts of Land Struggles in Makonde District, Zimbabwe: 1890 to Present

Vimbai Chaumba Kwashirai

In 2000, the government restored land resources to the indigenous people of Zimbabwe. The chaotic land reform caused widespread environmental problems.

Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 20

Half a Century of Public Participation to Stop Pollution in the Alviela River, from 1957 to Today

Sofia Bento, Teresa Bezerra Meira, Lúcia de Oliveira Fernandes, and Oriana Rainho Brás

This article examines mobilization and resistance against pollution in the Alviela River in the Santarém municipality, Portugal, since the 1950s.

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Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History is an open-access, peer-reviewed publication platform for short, illustrated, and engaging environmental histories. Embedded in a particular time and place, each story focuses on a site, event, person, organization, or species as it relates to nature and human society. By publishing digitally on the Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia promotes accessibility and visibility of original research in global environmental history and cognate disciplines.

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