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Ruma Chopra
is currently working on a project is titled, "Before Darwin: Empire, Bodies, Climate, and Culture.” This project has received funding from the Rachel Carson Center (Munich), the John Carter Brown Library (Providence), and the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Launching Global Environmental History: Dr. Thomas Short on Air and Diseases in 1749
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A guest post by Ruma Chopra It took the English doctor Thomas Short eighteen years to publish his nearly 1000-page assessment of the relationship between climates and diseases. Published in 1749, his two-volume history, A general chronological history of the…
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