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biblioscope
AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
| Allen, Susan E. "A Living Landscape: The Palaeoethnobotany of Sovjan, Albania." Ph.D. Dissertation, Boston University, 2005. 550 pp. Examines long-term processes of human interaction with the former wetland environment of southeastern Albania using archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological evidence from the Neolithic to Early Iron Age site of Sovjan (ca. 7600BC-900BC).Azenha, Gustavo S. "Conservation, Sustainable Development, and 'Traditional' People: Pataxo Ethnoecology and Conservation Paradigms in Southern Bahia, Brazil." Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University, 2005. 549 pp. Examines the relationship between "traditional" peoples and conservation initiatives, focusing on the conflict between the Pataxo Indians and the Parque Nacional Monte Pascoal (PNMP) in Porto Seguro, Bahia (Brazil), which came to a head in 1999. Provides historical context for southern Bahia from the 1800s, and argues that sustainable development strategies that value "traditional" knowledge do little to empower traditional peoples.Booker, Matthew Morse. "Real Estate and Refuge: An Environmental History of San Francisco Bay's Tidal Wetlands, 1846–1972." Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 2005. 309 pp. History of the tidal margin on San Francisco Bay, California, tracing physical changes to and human development of the tidelands from 1846 to 1972, culminating with the designation of a large portion of the bay's tidal habitats as the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge.Britton, Glenn W. "'Improving' the Middle Landscape: Conservation and Social Change in Rural Southern Michigan, 1890 to 1940." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005. 437 pp. Examines rural transformation in Southern Michigan at the turn of the twentieth century, arguing that farmers and rural leaders were the key figures in Progressive-era agricultural change by employing mixed strategies and contributing to the enclosure of the commons.Carey, Mark P. "People and Glaciers in the Peruvian Andes: A History of Climate Change and Natural Disasters, 1941–1980." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Davis, 2005. 302 pp. Analyzes the effects of glacier melting, leading to avalanches and floods, on politics, economics, and culture in twentieth-century Peru. Examines historical interactions among scientists, hydroelectric developers, government officials, and local residents in relation to glacier disasters.Carloni, Kenneth R. "The Ecological Legacy of Indian Burning Practices in Southwestern Oregon." Ph.D. Dissertation, Oregon State University, 2006. 181 pp. Explores culture- and climate-driven contributions to ecosystem change in Southwestern Oregon during the Aboriginal (pre-1820) and Euro-Agrarian (1850–1920) periods. Focus on the Little River watershed.Carlson, Hans M. "Home is the Hunter: Subsistence, Reciprocity, and the Negotiation of Cultural Environment Among the James Bay Cree." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maine, 2005. 505 pp. Environmental and cultural history of interaction between the James Bay Cree and the European settlers in Quebec, Canada, seventeenth-twentieth centuries. Focuses on the effects of the fur trade, missionary and government activity, and the importance of subsistence hunting in maintaining Cree connections to the land.Casey, Kathleen. "Noise Making Subjects." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California at San Diego, 2005. 274 pp. Analyzes scientific efforts to measure human responses to noise, or unwanted sound, in the United States, 1920s-2000s. Seeks to demonstrate how noise measurements reflect larger cultural and economic values.Chronopoulos, Themis. "Disorderly Space: Power Relations and the Postwar Decline of New York City." Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University, 2005. 319 pp. Examines urban planning efforts by New York City policymakers, 1940s-1990s, to reclaim neighborhoods and open spaces perceived as disorderly and declining. Argues that racial minorities suffered disproportionately from the restructuring and developed public strategies of resistance.Clary, Amy. "Textual Terrain: Wilderness in American Literature, Law and Culture." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2005. 220 pp. Examines the relationship between American land-use law and twentieth century environmental writing, arguing that policy is shaped by representations of wilderness in literature and popular culture. Reviews wilderness in American literary history from the eighteenth century-twentieth centuries.DiFranco, Aaron K. "Available Ground: Shaping American Nature Poetry." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Davis, 2005. 297 pp. Examines the nature/culture dynamic in American poetry, focusing on symbolism related to pastoralism, forestlands, and wildlife in the works of nineteenth-twentieth century poets including Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Robinson Jeffers, and A. R. Ammons.. . . |
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