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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
| Ashenmiller, Joshua Ross. "The National Environmental Policy Act in the Green Decade, 1969–1981." PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004. 304 pp. Examines the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 in a broad historical context, arguing that rather than being a novelty in the narrow arena of environmental policy, NEPA was a continuation of conversations about the shape of political economy that began in the 1780s. Discusses how the act blurred the lines between environmental and economic policy in the 1970s, setting the stage for the conservative movement of the 1980s.Babalis, Timothy. "The Cross in the Wilderness: An Aesthetic History of the American Park Idea." PhD dissertation, Graduate Theological Union, 2004. 393 pp. Intellectual history of the park idea in the United States, using the 1864 legislation which created California's Yosemite Park as an historical touchstone. Traces the evolution of the aesthetic principles underlying the park concept from the English Enlightenment through nineteenth-century America, including an epilogue discussing the 1913 Senate debate over the development of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite.Barry, Joyce. "Mountaineers Are Always Free?: An Examination of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in West Virginia." PhD dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2004. 196 pp. Examines the natural, economic, social, and political impacts of the controversial mountaintop removal method of coal mining in West Virginia, through the lens of environmental justice. Explores popular histories of the coal industry in the state and the gendered nature of regional anti-mountaintop removal activism.Biggs, David A. "Between the Rivers and Tides: A Hydraulic History of the Mekong Delta, 1820–1975." PhD dissertation, University of Washington, 2004. 423 pp. Historical study of the water environment and water projects in the Mekong Delta, 1820–1975, examining exchanges between water engineers and local people that defined regional identities tied to the surrounding water landscape.Brock, Emily. "Replanting the Douglas-fir Forest: Forest Science and Forest Practice in the Pacific Northwest, 1890–1945." PhD dissertation, Princeton University, 2004. 288 pp. Charts reforestation strategies for the Douglas fir forests of the U.S. Pacific Northwest from the 1890s to the 1940s, arguing that through these strategies a new understanding of the productive industrial forest developed around the goal of producing saleable lumber. Explores new connections between land use, culture, and science in the twentieth-century American forest.Buckley, Michael George. "Green Passages: Literary Natural History in Pre-Darwinian America." PhD dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 2004. 309 pp. Ecocritical survey of American literary natural history, 1790s–1860s, including work by William Bartram, John James Audubon, Wilson Flagg, Susan Fenimore Cooper, and Henry David Thoreau. Argues that the genre is unified by a dynamic and developing proto-ecological sensibility.Chung, Tzu-I. "American Legends: Nation, Nature, Natives and Others, 1608 to 2001." PhD dissertation, University of Arizona, 2004. 145 pp. Examines American narratives united by the trope of colonial conquest of natural resources through the subjugation of feminine body and feminized land, and the retreat of the primitive ignoble savage in the face of civilization. Examines works from the 1600s through the 2000s, including representations of Captain John Smith, the nineteenth-century paintings of Thomas Cole, the Broadway show Miss Saigon, and the PBS television program Frontier House.Crane, Jeff. "Finding the River: The Destruction and Restoration of the Kennebec and Elwha Rivers." PhD dissertation, Washington State University, 2004. 253 pp. Natural and human history of Maine's Kennebec and Washington's Elwha Rivers, examining how Indians, Europeans, and Americans used the rivers and the effects on their meanings for those societies. Also discusses responses by environmentalists to the rivers' declining ecological health, exploring restoration efforts and seeking to explain a fundamental shift from supporting dams for industrialization in the mid-nineteenth century to demanding dam removal by the late twentieth. Duarte-Trattner, Earth. "Branding Nature: From Slaves to Transgenic Organisms." PhD dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2004. 336 pp. Investigates the historical process of "branding nature" in the North American West, tracing the route by which branding moved between Mexico to California from the colonial period through the modern era. Slaves and cattle in colonial Mexico, oranges in industrial California, and genetically engineered corn serve as case studies in this project examining how labor and nature itself can be ordered and controlled through branding.. . . |
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