Biotraffic explores the complex world of biological resource trade. It takes readers inside the contemporary Ciskei region of South Africa, a once-notorious apartheid “homeland” …
Off the Peru-Chile coast, the cool coastal current mingles with nutrients from the ocean’s depths, fostering one of the world’s most productive marine ecosystems: the Humboldt …
In popular memory the repeal of US Prohibition in 1933 signaled alcohol’s decisive triumph in a decades-long culture war. But as Lisa Jacobson reveals, alcohol’s respectability and …