How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic
Explorers of the Canadian Arctic misrepresented the land as a snowscape while tundra plants were simultaneously collected for botanic collections.
Explorers of the Canadian Arctic misrepresented the land as a snowscape while tundra plants were simultaneously collected for botanic collections.
Humans have a long history of meddling in the oil palm’s sex life.
This article examines how issues of representation and aesthetics have impacted the environmental history of early modern Europe.
At the 1873 Viennese World’s Fair, the botanist Friedrich Haberlandt became enchanted with the vision of integrating soyfoods into European diets as a cheap source of protein.
This article shows how rural collective action in tropical Australia transformed plantations into small farms in the late nineteenth century.