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“Is This a Society of Humans or of Dogs?”: The Issue of Roaming Dogs in Nineteenth-Century Athens
In Athens, 1886, an unprecedented debate took place concerning the poisoning of roaming dogs.
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Conquest of Beijing: Hidden Contributions of Climate Change to the Tumu Crisis, 1449–1450
The Tumu Crisis, a nomadic invasion of the Ming Dynasty in the 1450s, coincided with the Spörer Minimum—a period of cooler-than-average temperatures known for having triggered famines and unrest in Europe.
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A Milestone on the Road to Independence? Singapore’s Catastrophic 1954 Floods
The flooding in Singapore in 1954 was one of the most significant floods on the island in the twentieth century.
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Marshlands, Sanitation Policies, and Epidemic Fevers in Late-Eighteenth-Century Barcelona (1783–1786)
A tertian fever epidemic occurred in Barcelona from 1783 to 1786 and affected approximately one million people.
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Treating the “Undesirable”: Venereal Patients in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1918
This paper explores how conceptions of Canada as a naturally healthy environment proved false when the ill-health of civilians was revealed during the First World War.
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To Dig a Well (in Siberia)
In 1947, inhabitants of Yakutsk gained access to potable groundwater from below the permafrost layer for the first time.
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“A healthy mountainous island surrounded by a sea of malaria”: Ecology and War in the Caucasus
A case study of the effects of malaria in the Caucasus across the revolutionary divide of 1917.
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Memories from the Disaster in 2004 of the Ship Vicuña
The ship accident of Vicuña is considered one of the biggest disasters that occurred on the Brazilian coast of Paraná, Brazil.