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Biblioscope
An Archival Guide & Bibliography
Theses and Dissertations
| Austin, Michael Louis. "Carving Out a Sense of Place: The Making of the Marble Valley and the Marble City of Vermont." Ph.D. dissertation, University of New Hampshire, 2002. 282 pp. Studies changes in land use from farming, to sheep raising, to mineral extraction that led to the establishment of Rutland, Vermont, as a city specifically identified with the marble industry. Examines the establishment and growth of the Vermont Marble Company, once the largest marble company in the world, from the late nineteenth century through the 1970s, when a Swiss firm purchased the company.Bainbridge, Clark Nicholas. "The Origins of Rosalie Edge's Emergency Conservation Committee, 1930–1962: A Historical Analysis." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Idaho, 2002. 408 pp. History of this radical environmental organization organized by conservationist Rosalie Edge (1877–1962) in the United States as an alternative to the Audubon Society, which was less aggressive in its efforts to promote wildland preservation and wildlife protection than was the Emergency Conservation Committee.Bernard, Lance Vernon. "Nature Building Nature: Architecture and Regional Identity in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1870–1970." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nevada, Reno, 2002. 208 pp. Examines the ways in which attitudes toward nature shaped a regional identity and influenced architectural designs during this period of urban growth in the San Francisco, California, region. Asserts that Bay Area architects, such as Willis Polk (1867–1924), Bernard Maybeck (1862–1957), William Wilson Wurster (1895–1973), and Ernest Kump (1912–1999), designed their buildings to complement the local environment and local environmental conditions.Boime, Eric I. "'Fluid Boundaries': Southern California, Baja California, and the Conflict over the Colorado River, 1848–1944." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2002. 419 pp. Topics discussed include: international border relations regarding water rights; water supply and consumption; reclamation and water resources development; and water policy and water law and legislation.Botting, Ingrid Marie. "'Getting a Grand Falls Job': Migration, Labour Markets, and Paid Domestic Work in the Pulp and Paper Mill Town of Grand Falls, Newfoundland, 1905–1939." Ph.D. dissertation, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2001. 414 pp. Case study examining economic, political, and social conditions in the pulp and paper industry mill town of Grand Falls, Newfoundland, Canada, that contributed to the employment of women in domestic service jobs during the early twentieth century.Brown, Amy S. "Nature in Practice: The Olmsted Firm and the Rise of Landscape Architecture and Planning, 1880–1920." Ph.D. dissertation (Urban Studies and Planning), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. 206 leaves. Illustrations. Examines landscape architect John Charles Olmsted's (1852–1920) influence on the professionalization of the fields of landscape architecture and planning in the United States, especially after the retirement of his uncle Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) from their partnership in the Olmsted Firm in 1895.Frazier, Larry Jack. "Adjustments and Responses of Southern Baptist Churches in East Texas to the East Texas Oil Boom of the 1930s." Ph.D. dissertation, Baylor University, 2002. 353 pp. Studies the degree to which southern Baptist churches in Texas oil communities changed their everyday operations and community programs to accommodate changes in society brought about by the discovery of large deposits of oil.Heathcott, Joseph Earl. "The City Remade: Public Housing and the Urban Landscape in St. Louis, 1900–1960." Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 2002. 475 pp. Urban renewal and the reconfiguration of the built environment in St. Louis, Missouri, during the first half of the twentieth century. Examines such topics as urban growth, city planning, racial segregation.Hedler, Elizabeth. "Stories of Canada: National Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century English-Canadian Fiction." Ph.D. dissertation (History), University of Maine, 2003. iv + 325 leaves. Examines attitudes toward nature and landscape and the influence of such notions on the shaping of a sense of national identity in novels written by primarily middle-class English-speaking Canadians during the late nineteenth century. Studies the ways in which authors related climate, geography, landscape, wilderness, race, gender, and alternative cultural histories in their representations of a unified British imperial national identity.Lennon, Mary Ellen. "Creating Coalitions: 'Outside Agitators' and the Harlan County Coal Strike, 1931–1932." Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 2002. 308 pp. Examines the assistance given by non-resident, middle-class writers, college students, Protestant ministers, and civil rights lawyers to working-class miners during their militant fight to unionize the local coal mining industry in Harlan County, Kentucky, during the early 1930s.. . . |
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