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Winged Scourge
An animated Disney film featuring the Seven Dwarves, showing various methods of combating the transmission of malaria by Anopheles mosquitoes.
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"Imperial Science Rescues a Tree: Global Botanic Networks, Local Knowledge and the Transcontinental Transplantation of Cinchona"
This paper takes the case of the cinchona tree to examine the rhetoric of colonial science in conjunction with its economic and political functions.
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Circeo National Park: Fascist Land-Reclamation and Conservation in the Pontine Marshes
The Circeo National Park was created in 1934 as a propaganda tool to serve as a reminder of how the area looked during the Roman Empire. In fact, the area had been radically modified by Fascist land-reclamation policies and practices.
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Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Malnutrition: The Making of the Assam Tea Plantations
After traders from East India Company discovered Assam’s wild tea plants in the early decades of the nineteenth century, the commodification of this resource in the eastern border of Bengal radically transformed the ecological condition of the region.
Perspectives Article
Unruly Marshes: Obstacles or Agents of Empire in French North Africa?
Through a short account of French reclamation in Algeria, this paper shows that it is between two divergent notions of environmental agency—environments acted upon and environments acting—that unruliness emerges as a provocative and potentially useful theme for environmental historians.
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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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The Good, the Bad, and the Ague: Defining Healthful Airs in Early Modern England
Combating malaria through travel, diet, natural remedies, and architecture in early modern England.
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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.