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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
| Breunig, Lydia Ann. "Conservation in Context: Establishing Natural Protected Areas during Mexico's Neoliberal Reformation." PhD Dissertation, University of Arizona, 2006. 344 pp. Examines connections between political economy and natural area conservation in Mexico during the neoliberal reformation of the late 1980s-mid 1990s.Bryan, Jimmy L., Jr. "The American Elsewhere: Adventurism and Manliness in the Age of Expansion, 1815–1848." PhD Dissertation, Southern Methodist University, 2006. 269 pp. Examines the cultural phenomenon of adventurism in the early- nineteenth-century American West, arguing that it contributed to masculine identity formation, as well as racial and gendered justifications of U.S. expansion.Buckley, Eve E. "Drought and Development: Technocrats and the Politics of Modernization in Brazil's Semi-Arid Northeast, 1877–1964." PhD Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2006. 344 pp. Examines technical assistance provided by engineers, medical sanitarians, agronomists and economists to alleviate drought in Northeast Brazil, late nineteenth-mid-twentieth centuries. Considers intellectual and political constraints on scientists' abilities to address the drought crisis, focusing on the period from 1909 to 1959.Carloni, Kenneth R. "The Ecological Legacy of Indian Burning Practices in Southwestern Oregon." PhD Dissertation, Oregon States University, 2006. 181pp. Explores how culture- and climate-driven processes have contributed to ecosystem change in the Little River study area of Southwestern Oregon. Tests the relative influence of humans vs. climate in landscape change during Aboriginal (pre-1820) as opposed to Euro-Agrarian (1850–1950) cultural periods, focusing on correlation with fire-related behavior.Drake, Brian Allen. "The Unnatural State: Conservatives, Libertarians, and the Postwar American Environmental Movement." PhD Dissertation, University of Kansas, 2006. 449 pp. Uses four case studies — of Senator Barry Goldwater (1909–1998), right-wing antiflouridation in the 1960s, "free-market" environmentalism in the 1970s-1980s, and environmental author Edward Abbey — to argue that conservatives, libertarians and environmentalists have influenced each other in important and complex ways during the post-World War II period.Fitzpatrick, John T. "Cultivating and Preserving American Wild Flowers, 1890–1965." PhD Dissertation, Cornell University, 2006. 546 pp. Examines support for the cultivation of native plants during the 1890–1965 period, including rhetoric promoting human and environmental health benefits. Focusing on the United States Northeast and mid-Atlantic, discusses the formation of native plant preserves and public native plant gardens.. . . |
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