Arcadia

2020

Published March 5, 2020

Spring

  1. Ruinated landscapes of imperial failed adaptations. © 2018 Mara Dicenta.

    Mara Dicenta

    The Beavercene: Eradication and Settler-Colonialism in Tierra del Fuego

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8973
  2. San Francisco de la Selva’s Foundational Planning. Unknown cartographer, c. 1744. Public domain.

    Francisco Astudillo Pizarro

    Water Flows and Topographic Networks of Power: Social Struggles for Water in the Copiapó Valley in the Eighteenth Century

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8981
  3. Photograph of yet another flood at Paronella Park. © Paronella Park Photograph Collection.

    Bianka Vidonja Balanzategui

    The Day the Falls Stopped Flowing: Devastation and Resilience in Tropical Queensland

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9001
  4. Photograph of damage to Townsville’s Strand from heavy rain, January 1998. Used by permission of CityLibraries Townsville, Local History Collection.

    Rohan Lloyd

    Remembering the Night of Noah: Flood Memory and Townsville's Floods of 1998 and 2019

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9002
  5. Photograph of army trucks clearing flood debris in Townsville, 2019. CC BY 4.0 Patrick White.

    Patrick White

    The Competing Influences of Deluge and Drought in Queensland’s Dry Tropics

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9003
  6. Ficarna verna, a common Spring flower in Rya Forest. © Björn Billing.

    Björn Billing

    Rya Forest Nature Reserve: A Case of Preservation, Conflicts, and Unwanted Rewilding

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8972
  7. An 1899 bird’s-eye view of Boston Harbor. Map by the Union News Company, c. 1899. Public domain.

    Pavla Šimková

    The Hub’s Archipelago: The Connected Histories of Boston and Its Harbor Islands

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8980
  8. Goats on the island of Palea Kameni, Santorini. CC BY 4.0 Yarl.

    Giorgos Kostopoulos

    The War Against the Goats in Interwar Greece

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9011
  9. Illustration of a desert landscape with nuclear technology and infrastructure.

    Chris Fite

    Imagining a New Eden in the Nuclear West

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9012
  10. Photograph of an "ice jam."

    Stefan Norrgård

    The Aura River Ice Jam in Turku, March 1903

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8982
  11. A beekeeper and his bees.

    Elena Feditchkina Tracy

    Virtuous Bees: How Beekeeping Helps Protect Primary Forests in the Russian Far East

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8995
  12. Display of museum objects.

    Anna Svensson

    Recollecting the “prodotti vegetali” of the Natural History Museum, University of Florence

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9017
  13. Photo of Auli Medicinal Herb Plantation.

    Nivedita Nath

    Histories of Central Himalayan Herbs: Vanaspati Karyalaya in Tehri Princely State c. 1879–1950

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9018
  14. Photo of Ushibushiyama, Numazu City.

    Kristina Buhrman

    The 1096 Eichō Earthquake and Tsunami

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9035
  15. Photo of a culvert.

    Baas Christopher, Darrin L. Rubino

    The Search for George DeBaptiste’s House: The Crooked Creek Flood of 1846

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9019
  16. Photo of a Japanese whaling station in 1910.

    Fynn Holm

    The Polluted Past of the Whaling Town Hachinohe

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9038
  17. Boats in an ice-filled New York harbor.

    Gerard Fitzgerald

    New York Harbor and the Vicious Circle of the Winter of 1917–1918

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9041
  18. Photo of Frederick L. M. Moir

    Ben Wilkie

    “What a Change When the Tide had Ebbed!”: Rivers, Empire, and a Scottish Transport Company in Colonial Malawi

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9040
  19. Photo of a serpentarium.

    Lily Pearl Balloffet

    Venomous Company: Snakes and Agribusiness in Honduras

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9042
  20. Photo of UC-123 airplanes spraying herbicides in central South Vietnam.

    Rutgers University, USA

    The Origins of Ecocide: Revisiting the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the Vietnam War

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9039
  21. Photo of Chilean troops during the occupation of the Araucanía.

    Matías González Marilicán

    Civilizing Nature with the Spade and the Rifle: The Engineer Battalion in the Araucanía Region, Chile (1877–1891)

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9043

Summer

  1. Bonbibi with little Dukhe, Shah-Janguli, and Dakshin Ray, here appearing as a tiger.

    Amrita Sen, Jenia Mukherjee

    Bonbibi: A Religion of the Forest in the Sundarbans

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9051
  2. Illustration of fish ladders.

    Christian Zumbrägel

    How a Fishway from Norway Reached the Weser River in Germany (1905–1912)

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9052
  3. Meme of Godzilla at Fukushima

    John Schneiderwind

    Godzilla as the Bridge: The Destruction of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9061
  4. Stamp.

    Daniel Dumas

    Problematic Postage: Canada’s Claim to the Arctic through a Postage Stamp

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9064
  5. Illuminated projections of butterflies on the Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant, Kernkraftwerk Gösgen-Däniken AG. Projection by light artist Gerry Hofstetter.

    Hannah Siegrist, Nathan Siegrist

    Kernkraftwerk Gösgen: In the Towering Presence of Nuclear Power

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9036
  6. Sandbank.

    Ana Isabel Lopes

    The Consequences of “Flying Sands” in the Cávado River Mouth (1700–1750)

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9073
  7. The launch of a weather balloon at the Vallisaari military meteorological station in 1962. According to Enqvist and Eskola, the task of the centre was to train conscripts as well as regular persons in the skills of meteorology.

    Samir Bhowmik

    From Nature to Infrastructure: Vallisaari Island in the Helsinki Archipelago

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9062
  8. Sarakatsanoi Tseligkes, one of the major subgroups of the nomadic shepherds of southern Macedonia and Thrace.

    George L. Vlachos

    A Complicated Relationship: The Transhumant Pastoralists of Macedonia and the Greek State, 1913–1936

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9075
  9. Justinian I.

    Lee Mordechai, Merle Eisenberg

    Plague, Paleogenetics, and the Boundaries of the Discipline of History

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9088
  10. The Tauride Palace.

    Lewis Purcell

    The Trees of Tavrichesky Garden: Forgotten Actors in the Politics of Cultural Landscape

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9099
  11. Protest sign.

    Elisabeth Fajt

    Voices of the Peace

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9100
  12. Photo of people and a goat next to a river.

    Luregn Lenggenhager, Andrea Rosengarten

    Flood Levels and Borderlines: Livestock Farming and Evictions Resistance at the !Garib/Orange River in Southern Africa

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9115
  13. Hong Kong in the 1930s.

    Leo Chu

    The Empire, the Naturalist, and the Countryside: Biological Science in Colonial Hong Kong

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9117
  14. The Madrid Codex.

    Olea Morris

    Xunáan Kab Rhythms: Native Bees and Ecological Change in Yucatan, Mexico

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9130

Autumn

  1. The Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. Photograph by Dennis Crabtree, 2008. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

    Barbara K. Silva

    Stars, Mules, and Interferometers in Early Transnational Astronomy in 1960s Chile

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9138
  2. La Muxatena.

    Sam Orndorff

    La Muxatena: A Sacred Rock Formation at the Heart of an Indigenous Social Movement for Environmental Rights

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9131
  3. Front matter.

    Emil Kaukonen

    Science in the Time of the Plague: Jakob Gråberg and the Moroccan Plague Epidemic of 1818–20

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9132
  4. The Yongle Hall.

    Ian M. Miller

    The Distant Roots of Beijing’s Palaces

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9133
  5. A smiling stingray (its underside) in Portaferry Aquarium. © 2016 Cordula Scherer.

    Cordula Scherer

    The Remarkable Ray of Dublin’s Ringsend

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9150
  6. A Cessna landing alongside a Land Rover in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania. Photograph by Adam Jones, 2013. CC BY-SA 2.0.

    Simone Schleper

    Views from Above: Light Airplanes and Wildlife Research and Management in the Serengeti during the 1950s and 1960s

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9153
  7. Aerial photograph of the natural ice factory in Røsneshamn. Photograph by Fjellanger Widerøe, c. 1936. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

    Ingo K. Heidbrink

    The Natural Ice Factory at Røsneshamn, Norway: How to Compete with Big-Tech by Using Nature

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9155
  8. Toxic waste in the port of Koko.

    Claudio De Majo

    Italy’s Poison Ships: How an International Trade of Hazardous Waste Sparked a Grassroots Struggle for Environmental Justice

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9152
  9. Kağıthane Valley. Photograph by Jean Pascal Sébah (1872–1947), c. 1884–1905. Public domain.

    Özlem Sert

    Water, Firewood, and Disease in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9158
  10. Cover Image

    İbrahim Can Usta

    The Typhoid Epidemic in Philippopolis, 1878

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9166