“A healthy mountainous island surrounded by a sea of malaria”: Ecology and War in the Caucasus
Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 4
malaria
Marshlands, Sanitation Policies, and Epidemic Fevers in Late-Eighteenth-Century Barcelona (1783–1786)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ague: Defining Healthful Airs in Early Modern England
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 12
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.
Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Malnutrition: The Making of the Assam Tea Plantations
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.
Circeo National Park: Fascist Land-Reclamation and Conservation in the Pontine Marshes
"Imperial Science Rescues a Tree: Global Botanic Networks, Local Knowledge and the Transcontinental Transplantation of Cinchona"
This paper takes the case of the cinchona tree to examine the rhetoric of colonial science in conjunction with its economic and political functions.
Winged Scourge
An animated Disney film featuring the Seven Dwarves, showing various methods of combating the transmission of malaria by Anopheles mosquitoes.
Mussolini Agricultural Act
Launch of a nationwide land reclamation campaign.
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