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A Parochial Approach: Colonial Entomology on the Plantations of Nineteenth-Century Sri Lanka
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-07)The coffee plantations of late nineteenth-century Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) were rocked by a series of crises, including the appearance of numerous insect pests. Scholars have demonstrated that nineteenth-century ... -
A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870-1900
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Towards the end of the nineteenth century, British colonists in Jamaica became increasingly exasperated by the damage caused to their sugar plantations by rats. In 1872, a British planter attempted to solve this problem ...