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The Water Shops of Republican Tianjin
The water shop was a crucial part of the traditional water supply system in imperial and early modern China.
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Small Farmers, Their Association, and the Transformation of the Australian Sugar Industry
This article shows how rural collective action in tropical Australia transformed plantations into small farms in the late nineteenth century.
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Unifying the Yangzi Watershed in Early Twentieth-Century China
This article examines early twentieth-century China’s top-down scheme of managing rivers based on watershed.
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Botanizing in the Borderlands
In the 1790s, Spanish naturalists traveled the vast realms of the Spanish Americas to seek out useful and commodifiable resources.
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How a Catastrophic Flood of the Gürbe River Triggered the Rethinking of Local Flood Protection
From channelizations to renaturations—the catastrophic flood of the Gürbe River in July 1990 prompted profound changes in approaches to flood protection.
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The 1795 Disaster: Casualties of the Spiritual Waterscape of Lough Derg, County Donegal
An account of the 1795 mass drowning on Lough Derg in Ireland’s County Donegal.
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A Story of Two Parks: Historical Roots of Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes in Twenty-First Century Europe
This article analyzes the recent controversial environmental history of urban parks in Istanbul, Turkey, and Budapest, Hungary, under authoritarian regimes.
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Anaconda’s Pipelines: Water Supply Problems of a Desert Region
This essay explores the paradoxical relationship between extractive activities of the mining company Anaconda and indigenous villages of Atacama, Chile.
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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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Living in the Time of a Subsurface Revolution: The 1783 Calabrian Earthquake Sequence
In 1783, strong earthquakes shook Calabria. These events, in combination with a dry sulfuric fog, led contemporaries to believe they lived in the time of a “subsurface revolution.”