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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
| Carter, Eric D. "Disease, Science, and Regional Development: Malaria Control in Northwest Argentina, 1890–1950." PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005. 553 pp. Examines the rise and eradication of malaria in Northwest Argentina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Argues that the state-led malaria control program was motivated by concerns over regional development and integration and state formation.Eves, Jamie. "A Valley White with Mist: Settlers, Nature, and Culture in a North Woods River Valley, 1800–1870." PhD dissertation, University of Connecticut, 2005. 376 pp. Examines the ecological and cultural adaptations made by migrants from Southern New England to the Piscataquis River Valley in Maine (the North Woods) between 1800 and 1870.Haggerty, Julia Hobson. "A Ranchland Genealogy: Land, Livestock and Community in the Upper Yellowstone Valley, 1866–2004." PhD dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2004. 320 pp. History of livestock production in the Upper Yellowstone Valley of Park County, Montana, focusing on business practices, land tenure, ranch work and the environment.Hungate, Adam B. "Let Them Eat Yellowcake: Navajo Uranium and American Marginalization." PhD dissertation, University of California at Riverside, 2005. 277 pp. Study of Navajo experiences with uranium mining, milling, and resulting health problems, 1940s-2005, in the context of federal Indian policies and the progressive marginalization of the Navajo by the United States government.Iannacone, Rachel E. "Open Space for the Underclass: New York's Small Parks (1880–1915)." PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2005. 396 pp. Examines the interplay of social, political and architectural theories in New York City's Small Parks Movement at the turn of the twentieth century, including the roles of designers like Frederick Law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux, and Samuel Parsons, Jr.Iannini, Christopher. "Fatal Revolutions: United States Natural Histories of the Greater Caribbean, 1707–1856." PhD dissertation, City University of New York, 2004. 315 pp. Examines American natural historical depictions of the West Indian environments, societies and commodities by such figures as J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, William Bartram, John Audubon, and Alexander von Humboldt, from the signing of the Treaties of Utrecht in the early 18th century through the antebellum period.. . . |
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