Winged Scourge
An animated Disney film featuring the Seven Dwarves, showing various methods of combating the transmission of malaria by Anopheles mosquitoes.
An animated Disney film featuring the Seven Dwarves, showing various methods of combating the transmission of malaria by Anopheles mosquitoes.
Through a short account of French reclamation in Algeria, this paper shows that it is between two divergent notions of environmental agency—environments acted upon and environments acting—that unruliness emerges as a provocative and potentially useful theme for environmental historians.
Combating malaria through travel, diet, natural remedies, and architecture in early modern England.
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.
A case study of the effects of malaria in the Caucasus across the revolutionary divide of 1917.
This essay looks at the career of Marston Bates and his turn from mosquito researcher to public intellectual.
Full book co-edited by former Rachel Carson Center fellow Marcus Hall.