mosquitoes
“A Virus in the Forest: Yellow Fever, West Africa, and the Remaking of Alliances Among Living Things, 1900–1950”
Draft of a Gregg Mitman’s contribution to the book Rural Disease Knowledge: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives (Routledge, 2024).
Mosquitopia: The Place of Pests in a Healthy World
Full book co-edited by former Rachel Carson Center fellow Marcus Hall.
“A healthy mountainous island surrounded by a sea of malaria”: Ecology and War in the Caucasus
Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 4
“From Mosquitoes to People”: Marston Bates and the Rockefeller Foundation International Health Division
This essay looks at the career of Marston Bates and his turn from mosquito researcher to public intellectual.
The Ecology of Yellow Fever in Antebellum New Orleans: Sugar, Water Control, and Urban Development
What Is Yellow Fever? Disease and Causation in Environmental History
Arcadia, Autumn 2017, no. 31
The Good, the Bad, and the Ague: Defining Healthful Airs in Early Modern England
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 12
Wild Earth 13, no. 2/3
Wild Earth 13, no. 2/3, features essays on the biological and cultural significance of snakes, the populist right in America, rednecks as wildlife managers, and mosquitoes across the Florida Everglades.
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.