Arcadia

Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 17

A Post-Wilderness National Park: Naturecultures of Destruction and Recuperation in the Castlemaine Goldfields

Lesley Instone

Once a denuded gold mining landscape, now a National Heritage Park, this place is site of emerging environmental histories of post-colonizing, post-mining lands.

Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 16

Droughts and Scarcity before Independence in the Viceroyalty of New Granada, 1800–1810

Katherinne Mora

Droughts, high prices, and scarcity of food affected New Granada in the first decade of nineteenth century.

Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 15

The Australia Day Floods, January 1974

Margaret Cook

Brisbane’s 1974 floods substantially damaged Brisbane, accelerating the government’s plans for a second flood mitigation dam.

Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 14

Attempts to Establish Eider Farms in the USSR, and Why These Failed

Alexandra Goryashko

Little-known information is presented on the efforts to set up eider farms in the USSR between 1930 and 1960.

Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 13

To Dig a Well (in Siberia)

Pey-Yi Chu

In 1947, inhabitants of Yakutsk gained access to potable groundwater from below the permafrost layer for the first time.

Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 12

The Good, the Bad, and the Ague: Defining Healthful Airs in Early Modern England

Tayler Meredith

Combating malaria through travel, diet, natural remedies, and architecture in early modern England.

Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 11

Urban Horticulture in Modena, Italy, 1980–2015

Gilberto Mazzoli

In 1980, Modena was the first city in Italy to introduce a law recognizing social urban allotments.

Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 10

“Hit them hard and hit them well.” Possums, Pollution, and the Past in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer

The killing of possums as “pests” is framed as a caring relationship towards Aotearoa/New Zealand’s natural environment.

Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 9

A Legacy of Brisbane’s Benchmark Floods of 1893: Creating Dam Dependence

Margaret Cook

Brisbane’s 1893 floods shaped water policy in southeast Queensland, creating a dependency on dams.

Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 8

Entomology and Empire: Settler Colonial Science and the Campaign for Hawaiian Annexation

Lawrence H. Kessler

Pest control was a political act in late-nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi, helping sugarcane planters pursue annexation to the United States.

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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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