"'The Land is Spoiled By Water': Cossack Colonisation in the North Caucasus"
A frontier environmental history of Cossack settlers in the North Caucasus reveals some of the weaknesses of the Russian imperial mission.
A frontier environmental history of Cossack settlers in the North Caucasus reveals some of the weaknesses of the Russian imperial mission.
Mosquito Empires, spanning nearly three centuries and the histories of many peoples, nations, and empires in the American tropical world, places considerable responsibility upon mosquitoes for the course of events in this region.
In Toxic Bodies Langston tells us of the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES), a hormone disruptor that doctors prescribed to pregnant women for decades in the mid-twentieth century.
An investigation into the introduction of European diseases to native peoples on the Pacific Northwest coast (North America).
The 1831 cholera riot in St. Petersburg was an extreme result of the city’s immense water pollution problem and led to social conflict between the educated classes and the poor people.
This paper compares the heuristic potential of three metaphorical paired concepts used in the relevant literature to characterise global relationships between the anthroposphere and the ecosphere.
Using a case of mad cow disease in the United States, this paper argues, statements of risk are ultimately social products that come to us by way of translation.
This article presents findings from an interdisciplinary study of the Loma Salvatierra archaeological site, which contribute to the discussion about the origins of venereal syphilis by further clarifying a likely origin and route of transmission of syphilis from the Old World to the New.
These articles look at the historical sources that may help to trace the spread of the Plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, considering how it spread from East Asia to other parts of the world.
In State of the World 2005: Redefining Global Security, Worldwatch researchers explore underlying sources of global insecurity including poverty, infectious disease, environmental degradation, and rising competition over oil and other resources.