Poles of Exploration and Exploitation: Olaudah Equiano in the Arctic
Arcadia, Autumn 2022, no. 17
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What Is Yellow Fever? Disease and Causation in Environmental History
Arcadia, Autumn 2017, no. 31
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective takes an anthropological approach to Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast. It portrays a historically globalized region which has adapated creatively to major transformations and still remains a major actor within global networks.
Nothing Like Chocolate
This film follows the founder of a grassroots chocolate cooperative in Grenada. It reveals the benefits of a cooperative model in an industry marred by corporate greed, trafficking, and slavery.
Coal and British Colonialism in Nigeria
This paper looks at how the master-servant politics of British indirect rule (ruling the colonized through their traditional authorities and structures) related to the production of coal and coal-using industries in Nigeria.
Chasing the Glitter: Black Hills Milling, 1874-1959
Chasing the Glitter tells the story of the men, mills, and machines that teased precious metals from the reluctant ores of the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Rubber boom destroys forests
Increased European demand for rubber leads to the destruction of forests in West and Central Africa.
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