Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges Series

14 primary works • 14 total works
Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges publishes works of environmental history that explore the cross-border movements of organisms and materials that have shaped the modern world, as well as the varied human attempts to understand, regulate, and manage these movements. Work on such topics constitutes an increasingly important area of study within the v…
Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i
In the nineteenth century, the colonial territorie…
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The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900
As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth …
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American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science
Biodiversity has been a key concept in internation…
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The End of a Global Pox: America and the Eradication of Smallpox in the Cold War Era
By the mid-twentieth century, smallpox had vanishe…
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Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France
France is often held up as a bastion of gastronomi…
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Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897–1975
Dating back to the nineteenth-century transplantat…
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All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental: Environmental Transformation through Species Acclimatization, from Colonial Australia to the World
Species acclimatization--the organized introductio…
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Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire
During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained …
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To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire
As the United States grew into an empire in the la…
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Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present
In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Boliv…
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Environments of Empire: Networks and Agents of Ecological Change
The age of European high imperialism was character…
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The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making
Illuminating the entangled histories of the people…
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Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice
Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska i…
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Oil Palm: A Global History
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Oil palms are ubiquitous—grown in nearly every tro…
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