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biblioscope
AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY
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| Aldrich, Mark. "From Forest Conservation to Market Preservation: Invention and Diffusion of Wood-Preserving Technology, 1880–1939." Technology and Culture 47 (April 2006): 311–340. Examines the development of wood-preservation technologies in America around the turn of the twentieth century in response to surging wood consumption, largely fueled by railroad construction. Focuses specifically on the techniques and economics of preserving railroad ties.Alter, Valerie. "Hawaiian Monk Seals: From Controversy to Cooperation, a Case Study of Cooperative Federalism." Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 20 (1 2005): 157–188. Case study of the conservation of Hawaiian monk seals under the Endangered Species Act as an example of cooperative federalism, or the teaming of state and federal officials towards a common goal. Provides biological and historical background on monk seal populations, threats to, and protection of the species from the 1800s through the 2000s.Armstrong, Kristin Jass. "The Secret Ingredient." Michigan History 90 (May/June 2006): 6–12. Natural and social history of Michigan's Fruit Belt, nineteenth century-2000s.Autio-Sarasmo, Sari. "An Illusion of the Endless Forests?: Timber and Soviet Industrialization in the 1930s." In Understanding Russian Nature: Representations, Values, and Concepts, edited by Arja Rosenholm and Sari Autio-Sarasmo. Aleksanteri-Papers 4. Saarijärvi, Finland: University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, 2005. 125–145 pp. Examines the role of forests in Stalin's industrialization program and the effect of the "illusion of endless forests" on Soviet economic policy and forested areas in the 1920s-1930s. Presents case study of Karelia in the northwest Soviet Union.Babbitt, James E. "The Impassible Dream: John W. Weatherford's San Francisco Mountain Boulevard." Journal of Arizona History 47 (September 2006): 173–184. Describes John W. Weatherford's project, 1890s-1940s, to build a scenic road for automobiles through the San Francisco Peaks overlooking Flagstaff, Arizona.Bartoli, Michel, and Bernard Gény. "Il était une fois...le bois mort dans le forêts françaises." Revue forestière française 57 (May 2005): 443–456. "Once upon a time...dead wood in French forests." Examines the uses and perceptions of dead wood in French forests, sixteenth through twentieth centuries.Bennett, Jason Patrick. "'Nature's Garden and a Possible Utopia': Farming for Fruit and Industrious Men in the Transboundary Pacific Northwest, 1895–1914." In The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel, edited by Sterling Evans. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 222–240 pp. Examines the burgeoning early-twentieth-century fruit industry in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, seeking insight into how settlers and promoters of the region as an "agricultural utopia" imagined white, masculine identity in relation to the natural environment both locally and across the U.S.-Canada border.Bhatt, Nina. "'There Is No Life Without Wildlife': National Parks and Identity in Bardia National Park, Western Nepal." In Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia, edited by Gunnel Cederlöf and K. Sivaramakrishnan. Culture, Place, and Nature Series. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. 297–325 pp. Analyzes how national park and wildlife officials in Nepal constructed identity both before and after the end of absolutist monarchical rule in 1990, focusing on how national park staff reconstituted relations, aspirations, and ideologies in the new framework of multiparty democracy. Provides a brief political history of Nepal from the eighteenth century.Bolotova, Alla. "The State, Geology, and Nature in the USSR: The Experiences of Colonising the Russian Far North." In Understanding Russian Nature: Representations, Values, and Concepts, edited by Arja Rosenholm and Sari Autio-Sarasmo. Aleksanteri-Papers 4. Saarijärvi, Finland: University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, 2005. 99–124 pp. Analyzes Soviet interaction with the natural environment focusing on geological surveys and the state strategy of colonizing and industrializing open spaces in the Russian Far North and Far East, 1917–1970.Bonfield, Lynn A. "Ho for California! Caledonia County Gold Miners." Vermont History 74 (Winter/Spring 2006): 5–47. Explores the experiences of men from Caledonia County, Vermont in the California Gold Rush, mid-nineteenth century.. . . |
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