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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
| Albritton Johnson, Fredrik. "The Enlightenment in the Highlands: Natural History and Internal Colonization in the Scottish Enlightenment, 1760–1830." PhD Dissertation, University of Chicago, 2005. 326 pp. Examines the role of "internal colonization" ideology in the rise and fall of the Scottish Highland economy between 1760 and 1830 on three levels: as an alliance of landowners and intellectuals within the Scottish Enlightenment; as a scientific project of resource inventory and environmental engineering; and as an "alternative mythology of northern exoticism."Allen, Mahalley D. "A Voice for the Voiceless: The Politics of the Animal Rights Movement." PhD Dissertation, University of Kansas, 2005. 240 pp. Broadly explores political tactics, strategies, and public perceptions of the contemporary animal rights movement in the United States, 1975–2000s.Berry, Michelle K. "Cow Talk: Ecology, Culture, and Power in the Intermountain West Range Cattle Industry, 1945–1965." PhD Dissertation, University of Arizona, 2005. 488 pp. Cultural history of range cattle ranchers in the intermountain states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico from 1945–1965. Examines how the creation of a "dominant ranch culture" during this period helped ranchers to assert claims to political, economic, and environmental power.Corbin, Devin D. "The Work of Belonging: Agricultural Improvement, Romantic Wilderness, and the Rise of Restorationism in United States Environmental Literature." PhD Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2005. 241 pp. Explores the tension between two precedents to ecological restorationism in American environmental literature: agricultural improvement and Romantic wilderness rhetoric. Examines eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century works including Henry David Thoreau's Walden (1854), John Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra (1911), and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac (1949).Damrow, Christine B. "'Every Child in a Garden': Radishes, Avocado Pits, and the Education of American Children in the Twentieth Century." PhD Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005. 400 pp. Traces the changing history of educational gardening for American children over the course of the twentieth century, including the effects of Progressivism, World War II, suburbanization, and the environmental education movement.Goertzen, Jennifer A. "Controversy and Compromise: The Creation of Kananaskis Country." Master's thesis, University of Calgary, 2005. 133 pp. History of the Kananaskis Country recreation area in Alberta, Canada, officially established in 1978. Provides background on the region's land use history and inhabitants, and the development of Alberta's provincial park system in the early-to-mid-twentieth century, and explores competing economic and environmental concerns in the park's administration since its creation.Gugliotta, Angela. "'Hell With the Lid Taken Off': A Cultural History of Air Pollution—Pittsburgh." PhD Dissertation, University of Notre Dame, 2005. 691 pp. Examines the meaning of coal smoke to the inhabitants of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, asking why, when, and for whom smoke became a problem in the city's history.Hay, Amy M. "Recipe for Disaster: Chemical Wastes, Community Activists, and Public Health at Love Canal, 1945–2000." PhD Dissertation, Michigan State University, 2005. 339 pp. Examines women's grassroots activism in Niagara Falls, New York and its interface with government, scientific, and medical "experts," complicating and expanding traditional accounts of the Love Canal controversy. Mid-to-late twentieth century.Henderson, Andrea D. "Reconstructing Home: Gender, Disaster Relief, and Social Life after the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906–1915." PhD Dissertation, Stanford University, 2005. 265 pp. Explores the social repercussions of the distortion of urban space that occurred in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, arguing that the disaster broke down barriers between private and public life. Examines themes of gender, progressive politics, and the relationship between social identity and urban space.Horning, Gloria G. "Social Network and Environmental Justice: A Case Study in Perry, Florida." PhD Dissertation, Florida State University, 2005. 170 pp. Case study of the community organization against water pollution from the Procter & Gamble/Buckeye Pulp Mill in Perry, Florida, examining community mobilization, collective identity, personal empowerment, and information exchange in environmental justice movements. twentieth century.. . . |
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