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biblioscope
AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
| Armitage, Kevin C. "Knowing Nature: Nature Study and American Life, 1873–1923." PhD Dissertation, University of Kansas, 2004. 252 pp. Employs historical analysis and pragmatic cultural theory to investigate problems of science, nature, and culture in American life at the turn of the twentieth century as revealed by the set of popular and curricular practices known as the "nature study" movement.Barge, Judith. "From Ranch to Realty: The Landscape History and Heritage of Former Settlement Schemes in the Bow Valley, west of Calgary, Alberta." PhD dissertation, University of Calgary, 2004. 243 pp. Focuses on historic landscapes and heritage of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century British and American settlement schemes of Mitford, Glenbow and Bowness Estates in the Bow Valley west of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.Battle, Whitney Lutricia. "A Yard to Sweep: Race, Gender and the Enslaved Landscape." PhD dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 2004. 181 pp. Uses archaeological evidence and oral history to interpret how enslaved women and men at Andrew Jackson's Hermitage Plantation in Nashville, Tennessee shaped and adapted to their environment to meet cultural and spiritual needs. Focuses on the gendered dimensions of the making of households and landscapes under slavery, and how ideas of space are reinterpreted by the local descendent community and the larger African American population.Bleichmar, Daniela. "Visual Culture in Eighteenth-Century Natural History: Botanical Illustrations and Expeditions in the Spanish Atlantic." PhD dissertation, Princeton University, 2005. 318 pp. Investigates the visual culture of natural history in the eighteenth century and its relationship to European colonialism, focusing on botanical images produced by Spanish colonial expeditions in the Atlantic.Brenneman, Dale Susan. "Climate of Rebellion: The Relationship Between Climate Variability and Indigenous Uprisings in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Sonora." PhD dissertation, University of Arizona, 2004. 359 pp. Explores the relationship between the drought-dominant climate pattern that began in late 1720s Sonora and a series of indigenous rebellions that caused Spain to modify its colonial policies. Focuses on disturbances among the Seris, Pimas Bajos, and Yaquis during the period from 1725–1742.Brushett, Lynda A. "Examining the Role of Social Capital in Community Development: How the Creation of a Land Trust Set a Small Town on the Path to Sustainability." PhD Dissertation, University of New Hampshire, 2004. 196 pp. Case study of the land use planning history of a small town in Vermont, 1960s–2000s, examining theoretical constructs of social capital and sustainable community development through the lens of lived experience.Cosgrove, Sondra Kae. "Biology, Culture, and Environment: The Struggle for Hegemony in Arizona." PhD dissertation, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2004. 164 pp. Examination of the various cultural groups who have attempted to extend control over what is now the state of Arizona, focusing on the ways successive societies adapted to the region's environment. Covers the rise and fall of the indigenous Hohokam civilization, conflicts between Spaniards and Indians in the 17th through early nineteenth centuries, and Euro-American invasion in the nineteenth century.Gibson, Stephen A. "How Green is Hollywood? Nature and Environmentalism in American Cinema, 1970–2002." PhD Dissertation, Saint Louis University, 2004. 218 pp. Using the methodology of ecocriticism, analyzes the presentation of the natural world, the environment, and environmental issues in American film using selected examples from 1970–2002.Gordon, Robert W. "Environmental Blues: Working-Class Environmentalism and the Labor-Environmental Alliance, 1968–1985." PhD Dissertation, Wayne State University, 2004. 382 pp. Looks at the history of cooperation between the labor and environmental movements in the United States and the nature of the relationship between workers, union activists, and environmental activists, 1960s–1980s.Inglis, Kerri A. "'A Land Set Apart': Disease, Displacement, and Death at Makanalua, Moloka'i." PhD dissertation, University of Hawaii, 2004. 324 pp. Examines the nineteenth-century Hawaiian experience with leprosy, in particular a leprosy settlement established on the island of Moloka'i, from a cultural and environmental perspective.Larsen, Eric L. "Situating Identity: An Archaeology and Representation of Race and Community in Annapolis, Maryland." PhD dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2005. 437 pp. Examines the role of space in the processes of racialization that occurred in Annapolis, Maryland, from 1870 to 1930. Landscape study focused on the Courthouse Block, once part of the city's African American community.. . . |
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