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American Champion Trees and the Wye Oak of Maryland
The surprising pedigree of a botanical idea.
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The Invention of Voacanga africana as a Ceremonial Psychedelic
This article examines transformations in the meaning and value of Voacanga africana.
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Layers of Meaning and Layers of Time in a Former Russian Peat Mining Region
This article explores the social and ecological legacies of the peat industry in Russia and the different meanings that people attach to peatlands after the end of peat extraction.
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Water Flows and Topographic Networks of Power: Social Struggles for Water in the Copiapó Valley in the Eighteenth Century
This article rethinks the environmental history of water and power in Copiapó between 1744 and 1801.
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The War Against the Goats in Interwar Greece
This article investigates forest policy in the period of dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas in Greece.
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A Complicated Relationship: The Transhumant Pastoralists of Macedonia and the Greek State, 1913–1936
Beginning in 1915, Greek authorities implemented measures against the nomadic shepherds of southern Macedonia.
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Stars, Mules, and Interferometers in Early Transnational Astronomy in 1960s Chile
This essay examines the multiple factors intertwined in the development of transnational astronomy in Chile in the 1960s.
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Cleansing the Sacred Habitat in the Time of Coronavirus: Buddhist Sang Rituals in Sikkim in Response to the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic
The Riwo Sangchö is a Buddhist purification ritual that has become popular in response to the Coronavirus in Sikkim, India.
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Rat Tech: Transforming Rodents into Technology in Tanzania
In Tanzania, those who consider rats technology envision nature as being transformed through social practices that rework environmental histories.
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Locust Infestations and Marginalized Communities in Colonial Western India in the Nineteenth Century
This article explores the impact of colonialism upon the marginalized communities of Bombay Presidency via the history of locust outbreaks.