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Enemy in the Blood

Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina

University of Alabama Press

Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina examines the dramatic yet mostly forgotten history of malaria control in northwest Argentina. Carter traces the evolution of malaria science and policy in Argentina from the disease’s emergence as a social problem in the 1890s to its effective eradication by 1950.

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The Everest Effect

Nature, Culture, Ideology

University of Alabama Press

The Everest Effect is an accessibly written cultural history of how nature, technology, and culture have worked together to turn Mount Everest into a powerful and ubiquitous physical measure of Western values.

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Global Memoryscapes

Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age

University of Alabama Press

Global Memoryscapesis a collection of eight essays examining the effects of a global society on the collective memories and identities of individual cultures.

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