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An Environmental History of Tobacco Pests and Diseases in Southern Rhodesia, 1893–1940
A historical examination of the occurrence of pests and diseases in tobacco farming and the environmental impact in Southern Rhodesia.
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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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“Hit them hard and hit them well.” Possums, Pollution, and the Past in Aotearoa/New Zealand
The killing of possums as “pests” is framed as a caring relationship towards Aotearoa/New Zealand’s natural environment.
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Mumps in the Post-Secondary Environment: Targeted Advertising in the 2007–2008 Alberta Mumps Vaccination Campaign
In 2007/2008 a gendered ad campaign was used in Alberta, Canada, to encourage post-secondary students to undergo mumps vaccination. This ad campaign can be seen as the result of a confluence of factors unique to a campus environment.
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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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Entomology and Empire: Settler Colonial Science and the Campaign for Hawaiian Annexation
Pest control was a political act in late-nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi, helping sugarcane planters pursue annexation to the United States.
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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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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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Rabbits on the Edge: The Belonging of Pests in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park
This article thinks differently about the belonging of rabbits in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia.
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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.