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Biblioscope
An Archival Guide & Bibliography
Theses and Dissertations
| Chiang, Connie Young. "Shaping the Shoreline: Environment, Society, and Culture in Monterey, California." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 2002. 397. Uses Monterey, California as a case study to examine the social and environmental history of the American coastline during the twentieth century. Focuses on sardine fishing industry, tourism, and changing race, class, and labor relations of the city during the period.Gilbert, Robert Lind. "Dividing Alaska: Native Claims, Statehood and Wilderness Preservation." Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002. 844 pp. Provides historical background on how the indigenous people of Alaska, most especially the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN), and the U.S. Congress formed a compromise regarding the economic development and land use policy of Alaska, soon after it became a state in 1959. Focuses on the 1971 Alaska Claims Settlement Act that established national parks and wildlife refuges, granted companies access to land to drill for oil, and paid indigenous people money, while also providing them with land to enable them to preserve access to subsistence resources.Gillespie, Gregory Eric. "The Imperial Embrace: British Sportsmen and the Appropriation of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Canada." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Western Ontario (Canada), 2002. 206 pp. Analysis of travel writings by British hunters exploring nineteenth-century Canada.. . . |
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