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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
| Allan, Marie. "A 2000-Year Record of Vegetation and Climate Change in the Jarbidge Mountains of Northeastern Nevada." Master's thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, 2003. 65 pp. The author argues that paleoecological evidence from the Mission Cross Bog in this region indicates that environmental changes over the past 2000 years were primarily caused by human actions, particularly mining.Bekele, Melaku. "Forest Property Rights, the Role of the State, and Institutional Exigency: The Ethiopian Experience." Ph.D. dissertation, Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet [Sweden], 2003. 227 pp. Historical analysis of changes in forest property regimes and their impact on forests in this African nation, primarily from the 1930s to the present. Discusses such topics as deforestation, forest ownership, forest utilization, forest policy, and government regulation.Bentley-Kemp, Lynne Austin. "Recovering Eden: The Photographer in the Garden." Ph.D. dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2003. 119 pp. Pictorial visions of Eden and paradise expressed in the landscape photographs of Carleton Watkins (1829–1916), Timothy O'Sullivan (1840–1882), Ansel Adams (1902–1984), Laura Gilpin (1891–1979), Linda Connor, and Marilyn Bridges.Bunke, Bruce G. "All States Were Not Created Equal: Control of the Public Lands in the Early American Republic and the Rise of Western Sectionalism." Ph.D. dissertation, Brandeis University, 2004. 181 pp. Examines United States public land policies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that managed the disposition of public domain lands in new western states and territories in a far different fashion than in the original thirteen colonies. Also studies the far-reaching impacts of such policies on regional American land politics of the late twentieth century.Campbell, Robert Bruce. "Inside Passage: Alaskan Travel, American Culture, and the Nature of Empire, 1867–1898." Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 2003. 435 pp. Asserts that travel writings by white elites exploring Alaska during the late nineteenth century influenced American attitudes toward the indigenous peoples and natural resources of Alaska and fostered American imperialist goals for the region.Casana, Jesse John. "From Alalakh to Antioch: Settlement, Land Use, and Environmental Change in the Amuq Valley of Southern Turkey." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 2003. 574 pp. Studies the relationship between land settlement patterns, agricultural land use, land tenure systems, soil erosion, flooding, and environmental change in southern Turkey during prehistoric and ancient times.. . . |
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