Exhibition chapter
Trade-offs | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
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Arcadia
Venomous Company: Snakes and Agribusiness in Honduras
This essay examines the history of venomous snake research conducted by the Boston-based United Fruit Company starting in the 1920s.
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Bonbibi: A Religion of the Forest in the Sundarbans
The cult of Bonbibi worship in the Sundarbans mangrove forests can inform conservation practices.
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How a Fishway from Norway Reached the Weser River in Germany (1905–1912)
Between 1905 and 1912, experts on fisheries and hydraulic engineering collaborated in order to erect a fishway at the Hemelinger dam.
Exhibition chapter
Through the Eyes of Children | Ecopolis München 2019
The physical Ecopolis München 2019 exhibition also included a station for younger visitors. Every station was told as a story for children. After an adult reads the stories to the children, they could draw their impressions on paper at a nearby table. This station was created by Isabelle Hermannstädter.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver, authors of An Environmental History of the Civil War
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver are interviewed on their new book, An Environmental History of the Civil War.
Perspectives
New Histories of Pacific Whaling – Revised Edition
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
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Xunáan Kab Rhythms: Native Bees and Ecological Change in Yucatan, Mexico
This entry focuses on native bees and their role as narrators of regional social and ecological histories.
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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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The Remarkable Ray of Dublin’s Ringsend
On the common stingray and its longstanding place in the diet, health, and lives of people in Ringsend, Ireland.