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Whale Peoples and Pacific Worlds
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
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The Enemy is Nature: Military Machines and Technological Bricolage in Britain’s “Great Agricultural Experiment”
Cobbled-together machines are turned loose on nature in a desperate bid to coax peanuts from the soils of Tanganyika Territory.
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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.
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Interview with Candace Fujikane, author of Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Candace Fujikane is interviewed on her book, Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai’i.
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Interview with Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Michelle Nijhuis is interviewed on her recent book, Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction.
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“Radical Stories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden: Emergent Ecologies’ Challenges to Colonial Narratives and Western Epistemologies”
On the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, 1913, and the different stories it conveyed.
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Disconnectivity in the Age of Globalization: Coastal Ecology, Telegraphy, and Empire in the Sunda Strait, 1863–1883
This article examines the environmental implications of Dutch nineteenth-century attempts to establish a telegraph connection across the Sunda Strait.
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Interview with Gonzalo Lizarralde, author of Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Gonzalo Lizarralde is interviewed on his recent book, Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail But Some Succeed.
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Logistical Ecologies: A Singapore Story
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the establishment of Keppel Harbour would lay the foundations for Singapore to become a logistics city.
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Interview with Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Sophie Chao is interviewed on her recent book, In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua.