Arcadia

Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 3

American Champion Trees and the Wye Oak of Maryland

Jared Farmer

The surprising pedigree of a botanical idea.

Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 2

The Lake That Became a Bus Terminus

Harini Nagendra and Hita Unnikrishnan

This article investigates the transformation of Bangalore’s Dharmambudhi lake into the central bus terminus.

Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 1

Living on Coral Time: Debating Conservation in the Anthropocene

Irus Braverman

Coral scientists are dealing with an existential crisis and are divided between hope and despair in their approaches to coral conservation.

Arcadia, Autumn 2018, no. 31

Lahar Meets Locomotive: New Zealand’s Tangiwai Railway Disaster of Christmas Eve 1953

André Brett

The Tangiwai disaster of 1953, New Zealand’s worst railway accident, is an environmental disaster with an enduring legacy.

Arcadia, Autumn 2018, no. 30

The Community Food Movement in the United Kingdom: 1960s to Present

Catherine Price

Since the 1960s, the community food movement in the United Kingdom has evolved from a means of survival to an alternative to industrialized agriculture.

Arcadia, Autumn 2018, no. 29

Tuberculosis in Echuca, and the Therapeutic Migration to Southeastern Australia (1889–1908)

Rebecca Le Get

In the nineteenth century, tuberculous individuals could travel from Europe to Echuca, Australia, in search of a cure.

Arcadia, Autumn 2018, no. 28

The Niagara Telecolorimeter

Daniel Macfarlane

The creation of the Niagara Telecolorimeter helped engineers physically remake Niagara Falls in the mid-twentieth century.

Arcadia, Autumn 2018, no. 27

Breeding for the Future: Corn and Climate Change

Annka Liepold

Climate change impacts both the goals of corn breeders, and their current everyday research.

Arcadia, Autumn 2018, no. 26

Fishing for Souls: Water Technology and the Dutch Baroque

Lisa FitzGerald

This article examines how issues of representation and aesthetics have impacted the environmental history of early modern Europe.

Arcadia, Autumn 2018, no. 25

The Qianlong Emperor Hunting Hare: From the Qing Esthetics of Nature to an End of European Exceptionalism

Philippe Forêt

This article proposes a new definition of baroque to better understand the global dimensions of the representation of nature by the Qing dynasty.

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About Arcadia

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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