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biblioscope
AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY
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| Adams, Carol J. "Robert Morris and a Lost 18th-Century Vegetarian Book: An Introduction to Morris's A Reasonable Plea for the Animal Creation." Organization & Environment 18 (December 2005): 458–466. Introduces a little-known 1746 book written by architectural innovator Robert Morris in which he defends his abstinence from eating meat. Argues that Morris's book is a valuable addition to vegetarian history and to discussions of veganism, factory farming, and animal confinement debates. Text of book is included.Alaimo, Stacy. "'Comrades of Surge': Meridel Le Sueur, Cultural Studies, and the Corporeal Turn." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 12.2 (Summer 2005): 55–74. Ecocrital examination of the work of twentieth-century writer Meridel Le Sueur, in particular her use of imagery of the earth as a human body, and other innovative depictions of bodies and landscapes.Alexander, Bill. "The First American Forest." American Forests 111 (Summer 2005): 7–10. Overview and history of forestry and forestry education at Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina, known as the "birthplace of forestry," including the key roles played by George Vanderbilt, Frederick Law Olmsted, Gifford Pinchot, and Carl Alwin Schenck. Late nineteenth century through 2000s.Anderson, J. L. "War on Weeds: Iowa Farmers and Growth-Regulator Herbicides." Technology and Culture 46 (October 2005): 719–744. Examines herbicides in American agriculture, using sources related to Iowa farmers in particular to suggest that farmers led the process of technological change, and in so doing, altered the ecological and technological conditions of farming in the years after World War II.Andreasson, Stefan. "Accumulation and Growth to What End? Reassessing the Modern Faith in Progress in the 'Age of Development'." Capitalism Nature Socialism 16 (December 2005): 57–75. Examines the post-WWII "age of development," in particular the links between religious faith, progress, growth, and development. Concludes that global disaster is impending unless radical changes are made in humans' collective behavior and understanding of the "development" concept.Andrews, Thomas G. "'Made by Toile'? Tourism, Labor, and the Construction of the Colorado Landscape, 1858–1917." Journal of American History 92 (December 2005): 837–863. Framed by the letters of Colorado manual laborer John Watts, examines the paradox of why physical work and the people who performed it became increasingly invisible in modern American society. Explores how tourists represented labor in the Colorado landscape from the Pike's Peak gold rush of 1858–1859 through the 1910s, using this case study to examine shifts in politics, culture, technology, and landscape that combined to marginalize laboring people.Anker, Peder. "The Closed World of Ecological Architecture." Journal of Architecture 10 (5 2005): 527–552. Explores how and why imagined and real environments in outer space, encouraged by space exploration, came to serve as models for ecological design of earthly landscapes and buildings in the 1970s. Reviews the work of leading ecological designers of the period, including Ian L. McHarg, John Frazer, Ken Yeang, and others.Appell, George N. "Dismantling the Cultural Ecosystem of the Rungus of Sabah, Malaysia: A History of How the Ideology of Western Institutions Led to the Destruction of a Bornean Environment." In Histories of the Borneo Environment: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity, edited by Reed L. Wadley. Leiden, the Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2005, 213–243. History of the environmental crisis precipitated by the dismantling of the cultural ecosystem of the Rungus people of Sabah, Malaysia, 1881–2000s.Armson, K. A. "Regeneration Standards: What Has the Past to Show Us?" Forestry Chronicles 81 (November/December 2005): 781–790. Reviews the twentieth-century historical development of forest regeneration surveys in Canada and the associated development of methodologies and standards.Asbjornsen, H., et al. "Defining Reference Information for Restoring Ecologically Rare Tallgrass Oak Savannas in the Midwestern United States." Journal of Forestry 103 (October/November 2005): 345–350. Using a case study from central Iowa, explores the limitations of and potential for finding historic and contemporary reference information for ecological restoration of rare tallgrass oak savanna ecosystems.Backhouse, Frances. "Survivor." Audubon 107 (November/December 2005): 18–23. Compares the fate of the piliated with that of the ivory-billed woodpecker in North America during the twentieth century, seeking to explain why one has flourished while the other faltered.. . . |
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