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From the early exploits of Teddy Roosevelt in Africa to blockbuster films such as March of the Penguins, Gregg Mitman reveals how changing values, scientific developments, and new technologies have come to shape American encounters with wildlife on and off the big screen.
Book profile for The Limits to Growth.
Exploring the cultural and environmental transformation of Rocky Flats from military industrial complex to protected habitat.
Garcia follows the migration of the American cockroach from its tropical origins in western Africa via slave ships to the New World.
A tertian fever epidemic occurred in Barcelona from 1783 to 1786 and affected approximately one million people.
Palsson and Swanson’s article explores the relationship between geology and social life in the Anthropocene, using the notion of “geosocialities.”
Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal how explicit social and political concerns influenced the scientific agenda of biologists at the University of Chicago and throughout the United States during the first half of the twentieth century.
Paul Gillen explores the role of conscious human agency leading up to the Anthropocene, suggesting that the development of sentience in the Phanerozoic eon exerted an influence on the interaction of minerals and life.