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Joan Maloof contrasts her father’s defense of DDT with her embrace of Rachel Carson’s message in Silent Spring, highlighting the personal and generational tensions surrounding pesticide use and environmental responsibility.

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.

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.