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Painting: “The St. Petersburg Flood of 1824”
Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev’s painting of Karuselnaya square (now Teatralnaya square) during the 1824 flood.
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Prevention or Poisoning? Dilemmas in Urban Rat Control
Effective strategies for rat control based on ecology were invented in Baltimore in the 1940s. The program, however, did not last.
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A Question of Origins: Skeletal Evidence in the History of Venereal Syphilis
This article studies the history of the debate regarding the origins of the venereal syphilis that “emerged” in Europe at the end of the fifteenth century.
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American Cockroaches, Racism, and the Ecology of the Slave Ship
Garcia follows the migration of the American cockroach from its tropical origins in western Africa via slave ships to the New World.
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“Infection”
For the special section “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities,” Celia Lowe reflects on the meanings of “infection” and the problems these pose for the Environmental Humanities.
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The Ecology of Yellow Fever in Antebellum New Orleans: Sugar, Water Control, and Urban Development
Epidemic yellow fever plagued New Orleans due to a series of environmental and demographic changes enabled by the rise of sugar production and urban development.
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What Is Yellow Fever? Disease and Causation in Environmental History
Rather than revealing the power of nature to shape human history, yellow fever is a disease that historically entangles nature and culture.
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Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter, Issue 14
In this issue of Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter, Susan Crane discusses who are the real vandals; Vicki Oldham writes about Clinton’s Forest Plan; and Mary Pjerrou brings up the issue of logging companies using new tactics to avoid the Timber Harvest Plan (THP) process.
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"The Viral Creep: Elephants and Herpes in Times of Extinction"
In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Celia Lowe and Ursula Münster present three open-ended stories of elephant care in times of death and loss: at places of confinement and elephant suffering like the zoos in Seattle and Zürich as well as in the conflict-ridden landscapes of South India, where the country’s last free-ranging elephants live. They call attention to the Asian elephant, a species that is currently facing extinction through the elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus.
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"The Political Life of Cancer: Beatriz da Costa’s Dying for the Other and Anti-cancer Survival Kit"
Lindsay Kelley investigates the multispecies power structures playing out in two of Beatriz da Costa’s projects, Dying for the Other and the Anti-cancer Survival Kit.