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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Andres, Benny Joseph, Jr. "Power and Control in Imperial Valley, California: Nature, Agribusiness, Labor and Race Relations, 1900–1940." PhD dissertation, University of New Mexico, 2003. 277 pp. Discusses (1) the growth of agribusiness through water resources development and (2) the labor and social structure of agricultural communities in Imperial County, California, along the Mexico- United States border. Asserts that despite the efforts of white middle-class leaders to promote white supremacy, segregation, and social conformity, white and Mexican immigrant laborers formed friendships, intermarried, and built labor solidarity through unionization.

de Toledo, Mauro Bevilacqua. "Holocene Vegetation and Climate History of Savanna-Forest Ecotones in Northeastern Amazonia." PhD dissertation, Florida Institute of Technology, 2004. 178 pp. Paleoecological history of vegetation change in the Brazilian Amazon during the Holocene epoch, focusing specifically on the influence of climate change and human activities on the replacement of swamp forests with flooded savannas.

Duffin, Andrew Philip. "Fill the Earth and Subdue It: The Environmental Consequences of Intensive Agriculture in the Palouse." PhD dissertation, Washington State University, 2003. 278 pp. Asserts that destructive agricultural practices based on an independent farmer mentality embracing the idea of unlimited growth caused extensive soil erosion, poor water quality, and environmental degradation in the Palouse River watershed of Idaho and Washington during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Falck, Zachary James Sopher. "Controlling Urban Weeds: People, Plants, and the Ecology of American Cities, 1888–2003." PhD dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004. 398 pp. Studies the role of weed control—particularly efforts to eradicate cannabis and ragweed plants—in shaping urban growth and the ecology of urban environments in St. Louis, Missouri; Washington, D.C.; New York City; and Buffalo, New York.

Flynn, Brendan. "Subsidiarity and the Evolution of European Union Environmental Policy." PhD dissertation, University of Essex [United Kingdom], 2004. Examines the principle of subsidiarity's impact on environmental policy discourse, implementation, and regulation in the European Union sector during the 1990s.

Gregg, Sara M. "From Farms to Forest: Federal Conservation and Settlement Programs in the Blue Ridge and Green Mountains (Vermont, Virginia)." PhD Dissertation, Columbia University, 2004. 298 pp. Through an environmental lens, analyzes the politics of land use and the coalescence of Progressive reform ideas that led to changes in the approach of the U.S. government to private lands during the 1920s and 1930s. Uses case studies of the creation of the Shenendoah National Park in Virginia and the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont to demonstrate the influence of regional and governmental politics in the transition from subsistence landscapes to federally mandated public spaces from 1924 to 1976.

Henderson, John C. "The Crater of Diamonds: A History of the Pike County, Arkansas, Diamond Field, 1906–1972." PhD dissertation, University of North Texas, 2002. 522 pp. On the discovery of diamonds in Pike County, Arkansas, by farmer John W. Huddleston in 1906; the subsequent development of speculative mining ventures; and the eventual decline of commercial mining activity in response to rising nature tourism.

MacKay, Allan Gordon, III. "Changes in the Design of Centrally-Planned Timber Frames During the English Middle Ages, A.D. 1250–1350." PhD dissertation, University of Virginia, 2004. 384 pp. Discusses changes in the craft of carpentry in England during this period in the medieval era, focusing on the increased use of curved timbers, the introduction of a new timber framing style, the increased use of labor-intensive housed joints, and the simplification of structural designs.

Mathews, Andrew Salvador. "Forestry Culture: Knowledge, Institutions and Power in Mexican Forestry, 1926–2001." PhD dissertation, Yale University, 2004. 575 pp. Examines laws and regulatory policies that have shaped forest administration by the Mexican forest service in the Sierra Juárez of Oaxaca, Mexico, and determines the degree to which the Ixtlán community has been able to successfully assert its autonomy in terms of land use, forest fire suppression, and forest management.

McCord, Peter Adams. "Green Ideas, Green Vietnam: Environmentalism in the Sixties." PhD dissertation, University of California, Riverside, 2003. 272 pp. Studies the influence of writings by biologist Rachel Carson (1907–1964) and social anarchist Murray Bookchin (1921– ), as well as growing concerns about the environmental costs of the Vietnam War, on the development of the environmental movement in the United States during the 1960s.

Moore, AnneMarie Lankard. "Robert Marshall, Howard Zahniser, and the Wilderness Society: A Life History Study of Agency and Structure in United States Wilderness Conservation." PhD dissertation, University of Idaho, 2004. 481 pp. Biographical study of Robert Marshall (1901–1939), founder of the Wilderness Society, and Howard Zahniser (1906–1964), Wilderness Society employee and promoter of the 1964 Wilderness Act. Investigates the personal beliefs, societal values, and resource networks that influenced each man's quest for wilderness conservation.

Moore, Joseph Glen. "Two Struggles into One? Labour and Environmental Movement Relations and the Challenge to Capitalist Forestry in British Columbia, 1900–2000." PhD dissertation, McMaster University, 2004. 539 pp. Argues that labor activism and the environmental movement profoundly impacted the development of forest industries in the capitalist society of British Columbia, Canada. Includes a case study of the political ecology of labor relations in forest industries in Squamish, British Columbia. Focuses especially on contentious issues associated with the logging of old-growth coastal forests in the region.

Nakajima, Chieko. "Health, Medicine and Nation in Shanghai, ca. 1900–1945." PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, 2004. 309 pp. On the role of hospitals and drugstores in providing health care to the public in Shanghai, the administration of public health care by the Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau, and political aspects of cholera control work in the city.

Nimz, Dale E. "Rivers That Work: Environment, Engineering, and Policy Change in the Kansas River Basin." PhD dissertation, University of Kansas, 2003. 408 pp. Reviews efforts to manage the Kansas River for better navigation and increased water supply, to enable the growth of irrigation agriculture, and to prevent flooding and promote economic prosperity in Kansas since the nineteenth century.

Ososki, Andreana L. "Ethnobotany of Rural and Urban Dominican Republic: Medicinal Plants, Women, and Health." PhD dissertation, City University of New York, 2004. 470 pp. Studies the degree to which the cultural history of the Caribbean region has shaped medicinal plant utilization by women and healers in urban and rural environments in the Dominican Republic, focusing especially on contemporary use of plant species and herbal therapies for women's health conditions in the provinces of La Vega and San Cristóbal.

Schoemehl, Frederick Anthony. "Nuclear Reactions: National Security Policy, Culture, and Environment in the Nevada Test Site Region, 1950–1958." PhD dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2004. 516 pp. Studies the negative impacts of above-ground nuclear weapons testing on human health and the environment in Nevada in the 1950s, focusing on the efforts of the United States Atomic Energy Commission to minimize environmental consequences of testing.

Scott, Monique Renee. "Up From Africa: Natural History Museums and the Making of Ancestral Meaning." PhD dissertation, Yale University, 2004. 518 pp. Examines exhibit representations of African culture at the Natural History and Horniman museums in London, England; at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi, Kenya; and at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Argues that popular folklore and museum iconography often stigmatize Africans as evolutionary relics, and asserts that natural history museums are institutions that promote a visiting experience intricately connected to and shaped by the topics of race, class, culture, and history.

Solan, Victoria Jane. "'Built for health': American Architecture and the Healthy House, 1850–1930." PhD dissertation, Yale University, 2004. 212 pp. Discusses the prevailing idea of the time that associated health and well-being with spacious, well-built family homes and healthy environments. Topics covered include the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, a medical facility for tuberculosis treatment that promoted the healing power of nature.

Sowards, Elizabeth Carney. "Outdoor Living: Suburban Landscapes, Sense of Place, and Environmentalism in the American West." PhD dissertation, Arizona State University, 2004. 275 pp. Argues that in the post-World War II western United States garden clubs, landscape architects, popular magazines, and housing developers all contributed to the development of a sense of place and regional identity for suburbs based on a culture of outdoor living that incorporated concepts of environmentalism, gardening, and outdoor recreation. Based upon data collected from the papers of landscape architects Saco Rienk DeBoer and Arthur Carhart, the records of garden clubs, and numerous other sources.

Widick, Richard Eugene. "Trouble in the Forest: Redwood Timber Wars, Remnant Communities, and the Modern Social Imaginary." PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004. 600 pp. Studies social aspects of property rights in Humboldt County, California, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Discusses the influence of conflicts between Native Americans and settlers, between different classes of labor workers, and between forest industries and environmentalists on the development of a regional identity.

Wozniak, Joan Alice. "Exploring Landscapes on Easter Island (Rapanui) With Geoarchaeological Studies: Settlement, Subsistence, and Environmental Changes." PhD Dissertation, University of Oregon, 2003. 733 pp. Assesses new evidence from archaeological excavations, surveys, and statistical analyses related to the evolving relationship between the Rapanui people of Easter Island and their environment. Using a landscape and multidisciplinary approach, investigates the development of dryland horticulture, settlement, and monumental architecture back to the fourteenth century, as they relate to environmental change.

Zybach, Bob. "The Great Fires: Indian Burning and Catastrophic Forest Fire Patterns of the Oregon Coast Range, 1491–1951." PhD dissertation, Oregon State University, 2004. 451 pp. Discusses the use of controlled burns by Native Americans to shape landscape patterns of trails, fields, woodlands, forests, and grasslands in western Oregon from 1491 to 1848, and studies corresponding patterns of forest fires that occurred in the same areas from 1849 to 1951.

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