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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Andres, Benny Joseph, Jr. "Power and Control in Imperial Valley, California: Nature, Agribusiness, Labor and Race Relations, 1900–1940." PhD dissertation, University of New Mexico, 2003. 277 pp. Discusses (1) the growth of agribusiness through water resources development and (2) the labor and social structure of agricultural communities in Imperial County, California, along the Mexico- United States border. Asserts that despite the efforts of white middle-class leaders to promote white supremacy, segregation, and social conformity, white and Mexican immigrant laborers formed friendships, intermarried, and built labor solidarity through unionization.

de Toledo, Mauro Bevilacqua. "Holocene Vegetation and Climate History of Savanna-Forest Ecotones in Northeastern Amazonia." PhD dissertation, Florida Institute of Technology, 2004. 178 pp. Paleoecological history of vegetation change in the Brazilian Amazon during the Holocene epoch, focusing specifically on the influence of climate change and human activities on the replacement of swamp forests with flooded savannas.

Duffin, Andrew Philip. "Fill the Earth and Subdue It: The Environmental Consequences of Intensive Agriculture in the Palouse." PhD dissertation, Washington State University, 2003. 278 pp. Asserts that destructive agricultural practices based on an independent farmer mentality embracing the idea of unlimited growth caused extensive soil erosion, poor water quality, and environmental degradation in the Palouse River watershed of Idaho and Washington during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Falck, Zachary James Sopher. "Controlling Urban Weeds: People, Plants, and the Ecology of American Cities, 1888–2003." PhD dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004. 398 pp. Studies the role of weed control—particularly efforts to eradicate cannabis and ragweed plants—in shaping urban growth and the ecology of urban environments in St. Louis, Missouri; Washington, D.C.; New York City; and Buffalo, New York.

Flynn, Brendan. "Subsidiarity and the Evolution of European Union Environmental Policy." PhD dissertation, University of Essex [United Kingdom], 2004. Examines the principle of subsidiarity's impact on environmental policy discourse, implementation, and regulation in the European Union sector during the 1990s.

Gregg, Sara M. "From Farms to Forest: Federal Conservation and Settlement Programs in the Blue Ridge and Green Mountains (Vermont, Virginia)." PhD Dissertation, Columbia University, 2004. 298 pp. Through an environmental lens, analyzes the politics of land use and the coalescence of Progressive reform ideas that led to changes in the approach of the U.S. government to private lands during the 1920s and 1930s. Uses case studies of the creation of the Shenendoah National Park in Virginia and the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont to demonstrate the influence of regional and governmental politics in the transition from subsistence landscapes to federally mandated public spaces from 1924 to 1976.

Henderson, John C. "The Crater of Diamonds: A History of the Pike County, Arkansas, Diamond Field, 1906–1972." PhD dissertation, University of North Texas, 2002. 522 pp. On the discovery of diamonds in Pike County, Arkansas, by farmer John W. Huddleston in 1906; the subsequent development of speculative mining ventures; and the eventual decline of commercial mining activity in response to rising nature tourism.

MacKay, Allan Gordon, III. "Changes in the Design of Centrally-Planned Timber Frames During the English Middle Ages, A.D. 1250–1350." PhD dissertation, University of Virginia, 2004. 384 pp. Discusses changes in the craft of carpentry in England during this period in the medieval era, focusing on the increased use of curved timbers, the introduction of a new timber framing style, the increased use of labor-intensive housed joints, and the simplification of structural designs.

Mathews, Andrew Salvador. "Forestry Culture: Knowledge, Institutions and Power in Mexican Forestry, 1926–2001." PhD dissertation, Yale University, 2004. 575 pp. Examines laws and regulatory policies that have shaped forest administration by the Mexican forest service in the Sierra Juárez of Oaxaca, Mexico, and determines the degree to which the Ixtlán community has been able to successfully assert its autonomy in terms of land use, forest fire suppression, and forest management.

McCord, Peter Adams. "Green Ideas, Green Vietnam: Environmentalism in the Sixties." PhD dissertation, University of California, Riverside, 2003. 272 pp. Studies the influence of writings by biologist Rachel Carson (1907–1964) and social anarchist Murray Bookchin (1921– ), as well as growing concerns about the environmental costs of the Vietnam War, on the development of the environmental movement in the United States during the 1960s.. . .

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