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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
| Buzzetto-More, Nicole. "The Black Rock Forest Consortium: A Narrative." Ed.D., Columbia University Teachers College, 2004. 154 pp. Narrative history of the Black Rock Forest in New York's Hudson Valley, a wilderness area established in the 1920s near Cornwall, New York as a research center and demonstration of sustained yield management. Focuses on the development and operations of the Black Rock Forest Consortium, a unique amalgamation of educational, scientific, and cultural institutions that collaborate to enhance research, conservation, and education.Checkovich, Alex. "Mapping the American Way: Geographical Knowledge and the Development of the United States, 1890–1950." PhD Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2004. 277 pp. Environmental and social history of American cartography, focusing on the opening of a distinctive historical-geographical frontier from 1890 to 1950. Explores the history of the constitutive practices of mapping, the explosion of scientific and commercial maps in the twentieth century, and the evolution of land-use mapping.Culver, Milton Lawrence, Jr. "The Island, The Oasis, and the City: Santa Catalina, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, and Southern California's Shaping of American Life and Leisure." PhD Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004. 402 pp. Examines the promotion of leisure in Southern California, 1870s-twentieth century, addressing questions of the effects of promotion on the region's development and population diversity, and the role of Southern California leisure in shaping national culture.Dameron-Hager, Irene. "The Contribution of Environmental History to the Development of a Model to Aid Watershed Management: A Comparative Study of the Big Darby Creek and Deer Creek Watersheds in Ohio." PhD Dissertation, Ohio State University, 2004. 266 pp. Develops a model to help explain variations in watershed quality and integrity by combining elements from environmental history and natural resource management. Applies model to Ohio's Big Darby Creek and Deer Creek watersheds.Diamond, David. "Migrations: Henderson Luelling and the Cultivated Apple, 1822–1854." PhD Dissertation, Northern Arizona University, 2004. 344 pp. Draws on biology and botany as well as history in studying the life of Henderson Luelling, who in the early nineteenth century transported, propagated, and dispersed the first grafted fruit trees in the American far west. Seeks to recognize the historical agency of plants and nature as well as people.. . . |
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