Jacob Darwin Hamblin

Roundtable: Mosquito Empires

This inaugural roundtable for H-Environment centers upon one of the key concepts that students and scholars of environmental history confront: environmental determinism. Many found their way to the field after reading Alfred W. Crosby’s 1972 The Columbian Exchange, which brought plants, animals, and diseases out of the footnotes and into a prominent place in the […]

Jacob Darwin Hamblin

January 28, 2011

H-Environment Roundtables

J. R. McNeill, John R. McNeill, Lisa Brady, Mosquito Empires, Paul Sutter, Richard Tucker, Stuart McCook, yellow fever
Environmental Histories of the Cold War

I was excited to be part of this volume, writing about biological weapons and radioactive contamination in the early years of the Cold War. The books emerged from a conference at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., and is edited by J. R. McNeill and Corinna Unger. Here’s the description: Environmental Histories of the […]

Jacob Darwin Hamblin

December 15, 2010

Essays