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Biblioscope
An Archival Guide & Bibliography
Articles
| Alexander, Thomas G. "Interdependence and Change: Mutual Irrigation Companies in Utah's Wasatch Oasis in an Age of Modernization, 1870–1930." Utah Historical Quarterly 71 (Fall 2003): 292–314. Discusses water resources development, water rights, water utilization, and water law and legislation.Anderson, Warwick. "The Natures of Culture: Environment and Race in the Colonial Tropics." In Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 29–46 pp. Examines changes in scientific theories about race, climate, health in the Philippines during Spanish colonial rule in the late-nineteenth century and under United States imperial rule in the early twentieth century.Apple, Daina Dravnieks. "Evolution of U.S. Water Policy: Emphasis on the West." Women in Natural Resources 24 (No. 3, 2003–2004). Development of water rights and water law since the 19th century, especially in California.Ayres, Ed. "The Hidden Shame of the Global Industrial Economy." World Watch 17 (January/February 2004): 20–29. Compares the social, economic, and environmental impacts of sixteenth-century colonial extractive practices with those arising from extractive logging and mining operations around the world during the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries.Bachrach, David S. "Crossbows for the King: The Crossbow during the Reigns of John and Henry III of England." Technology and Culture 45 (January 2004): 102–119. History of the technology used in the production of wooden crossbows and their use by the English military from 1204 to 1272 during the reigns of King John (1167–1216) and his son and successor King Henry III (1207–1272).Bain, David. "The Queen's Park and its Avenues: Canada's First Public Park." Ontario History 95 (Autumn 2003): 192–215. Discusses the establishment of Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1860 and the impact of subsequent urban growth and development on the character and utilization of the park through the end of the nineteenth century.Barnett, Gabrielle. "Drive By Viewing: Visual Consciousness and Forest Preservation in the Automobile Age." Technology And Culture 45 (January 2004): 30–54. Examines the competing reactions of the Save-the-Redwoods League and of highway promoters to the replacement of the two-lane Redwood Highway with a multi-lane Redwood Parks Freeway connecting Grants Pass, Oregon, with San Francisco, California; 1920s to 1950s.Baviskar, Amita. "Tribal Politics and Discourses of Indian Environmentalism." In Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 289–318 pp. Examines the evolving political conflict over the issues of environmentalism and sustainable development between the middle-class activists who founded the Sangeth tribal trade union and tribal activists who later emerged as leaders of the union in the Madhya Pradesh state of India since the 1980s.Beattie, James. "Environmental Anxiety in New Zealand, 1840–1941: Climate Change, Soil Erosion, Sand Drift, Flooding and Forest Conservation." Environment and History 9 (November 2003): 379–392. Studies environmental concerns in New Zealand about the negative impacts of deforestation on climate, soils, and water resources, and discusses the impacts of a growing priority toward agricultural development at the expense of forest conservation on efforts to conserve natural resources during this period.Beinart, William, and Karen Middleton. "Plant Transfers in Historical Perspective: A Review Article." Environment and History 10 (February 2004): 3–29. Historiographical analysis of the transfer of cultivated crops, garden plants, and weeds from native areas to non-native environments during the time of European imperialism from 1500 to 1900.Blum, Edward J. "The Crucible of Disease: Trauma, Memory, and National Reconciliation during the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878." The Journal of Southern History 69 (November 2003): 791–820. Argues that the assistance provided by northerners to people suffering from the widespread 1878 yellow fever epidemic in the southern United States significantly helped mend lingering feelings of hatred caused by the American Civil War.Botner, Fred, Jr. "Planting Trees and Fighting Fires in National Forest." NACCCA Journal 27 (January 2004): 4. The author reminisces about his work in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the late 1930s fighting forest fires, felling "snag" trees killed by fire, planting white pines, and cleaning up the forest after commercial logging operations. Botner was based in camp 594, F-164 on the Kaniksu National Forest in Idaho and worked in both Idaho and Montana.. . . |
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