Arcadia
The Good, the Bad, and the Ague: Defining Healthful Airs in Early Modern England
Combating malaria through travel, diet, natural remedies, and architecture in early modern England.
Combating malaria through travel, diet, natural remedies, and architecture in early modern England.
Effective strategies for rat control based on ecology were invented in Baltimore in the 1940s. The program, however, did not last.
Garcia follows the migration of the American cockroach from its tropical origins in western Africa via slave ships to the New World.
Epidemic yellow fever plagued New Orleans due to a series of environmental and demographic changes enabled by the rise of sugar production and urban development.
Rather than revealing the power of nature to shape human history, yellow fever is a disease that historically entangles nature and culture.