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“Zwischen Staunen und Zweifeln” [Between amazement and doubt]
Full text of Peter Niedersteiner’s dissertation, “Zwischen Staunen und Zweifeln.”
Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question
Excerpt from Bénédicte Boisseron’s book Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question.
The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900–1950
Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal how explicit social and political concerns influenced the scientific agenda of biologists at the University of Chicago and throughout the United States during the first half of the twentieth century.
Mosquitopia: The Place of Pests in a Healthy World
Full book co-edited by former Rachel Carson Center fellow Marcus Hall.
The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s
Excerpt from The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s by former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Moon.
Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism
Excerpt from Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism, a new interpretation of Thoreau’s Walden.
Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death
Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death, edited by Monica H. Green, is available to download in its entirety.
Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park
Safari Nation opens new lines of inquiry in the study of national parks in Africa and the rest of the world.