| biblioscope: An Archival Guide & Bibliography | Environmental History, 12.3

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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Akiwumi, Fenda A. "Environmental and Social Change in Southwestern Sierra Leone: Timber Extraction (1832–1898) and Rutile Mining (1967–2005)." PhD Dissertation, Texas State University, 2006. 230 pp. Evaluates environmental and social change in southwestern Sierra Leone, West Africa as a result of the nineteenth-century timber trade and rutile, or titanium dioxide, mining in the twentieth century. Uses a conceptual model based on world systems theory.

Anderson, Christopher T. "Nothing Lowly: The Anti-Picturesque in American Nature Poetry." PhD Dissertation, University of Connecticut, 2006. 306 pp. Examines the depiction of "unattractive, repugnant, violent, and disordered" nature innineteenth and twentieth century American poetry and its relationship to the history of science. Argues that the anti-picturesque aesthetic, which validates as beautiful aspects of nature typically considered repellent, emerged in the works of Emerson and Whitman, was expanded by Modernists like T. S. Eliot and Marianne Moore, and continues in contemporary poetry by Theodore Roethke, Gary Snyder, and others.

Andersson, Rikard. "Historical Land-Use Information from Culturally Modified Trees." PhD Dissertation, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2005. 36 pp. Examines the usefulness of Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs) for assessing human activity and impacts on forest ecosystems, especially in northern Scandinavia.

Bird, Mary Dickinson. "Dame Bug and Her Students: The Science and Environmental Teaching of Edith Marion Patch." EdD Dissertation, Harvard University, 2006. 209 pp. Explores the educational ideas and practices of Edith Marion Patch (1876–1954), educator, author of natural history stories, environmental activist, and one of America's first university-trained female entomologists. Analyzes the early twenty-first-century relevance of Patch's work in encouraging scientific literacy, environmental stewardship, and hands-on inquiry in pedagogy.. . .

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