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biblioscope

AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Armitage, Kevin C. "Knowing Nature: Nature Study and American Life, 1873–1923." PhD Dissertation, University of Kansas, 2004. 252 pp. Employs historical analysis and pragmatic cultural theory to investigate problems of science, nature, and culture in American life at the turn of the twentieth century as revealed by the set of popular and curricular practices known as the "nature study" movement.

Barge, Judith. "From Ranch to Realty: The Landscape History and Heritage of Former Settlement Schemes in the Bow Valley, west of Calgary, Alberta." PhD dissertation, University of Calgary, 2004. 243 pp. Focuses on historic landscapes and heritage of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century British and American settlement schemes of Mitford, Glenbow and Bowness Estates in the Bow Valley west of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Battle, Whitney Lutricia. "A Yard to Sweep: Race, Gender and the Enslaved Landscape." PhD dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 2004. 181 pp. Uses archaeological evidence and oral history to interpret how enslaved women and men at Andrew Jackson's Hermitage Plantation in Nashville, Tennessee shaped and adapted to their environment to meet cultural and spiritual needs. Focuses on the gendered dimensions of the making of households and landscapes under slavery, and how ideas of space are reinterpreted by the local descendent community and the larger African American population.

Bleichmar, Daniela. "Visual Culture in Eighteenth-Century Natural History: Botanical Illustrations and Expeditions in the Spanish Atlantic." PhD dissertation, Princeton University, 2005. 318 pp. Investigates the visual culture of natural history in the eighteenth century and its relationship to European colonialism, focusing on botanical images produced by Spanish colonial expeditions in the Atlantic.

Brenneman, Dale Susan. "Climate of Rebellion: The Relationship Between Climate Variability and Indigenous Uprisings in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Sonora." PhD dissertation, University of Arizona, 2004. 359 pp. Explores the relationship between the drought-dominant climate pattern that began in late 1720s Sonora and a series of indigenous rebellions that caused Spain to modify its colonial policies. Focuses on disturbances among the Seris, Pimas Bajos, and Yaquis during the period from 1725–1742.

Brushett, Lynda A. "Examining the Role of Social Capital in Community Development: How the Creation of a Land Trust Set a Small Town on the Path to Sustainability." PhD Dissertation, University of New Hampshire, 2004. 196 pp. Case study of the land use planning history of a small town in Vermont, 1960s–2000s, examining theoretical constructs of social capital and sustainable community development through the lens of lived experience.

Cosgrove, Sondra Kae. "Biology, Culture, and Environment: The Struggle for Hegemony in Arizona." PhD dissertation, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2004. 164 pp. Examination of the various cultural groups who have attempted to extend control over what is now the state of Arizona, focusing on the ways successive societies adapted to the region's environment. Covers the rise and fall of the indigenous Hohokam civilization, conflicts between Spaniards and Indians in the 17th through early nineteenth centuries, and Euro-American invasion in the nineteenth century.

Gibson, Stephen A. "How Green is Hollywood? Nature and Environmentalism in American Cinema, 1970–2002." PhD Dissertation, Saint Louis University, 2004. 218 pp. Using the methodology of ecocriticism, analyzes the presentation of the natural world, the environment, and environmental issues in American film using selected examples from 1970–2002.

Gordon, Robert W. "Environmental Blues: Working-Class Environmentalism and the Labor-Environmental Alliance, 1968–1985." PhD Dissertation, Wayne State University, 2004. 382 pp. Looks at the history of cooperation between the labor and environmental movements in the United States and the nature of the relationship between workers, union activists, and environmental activists, 1960s–1980s.

Inglis, Kerri A. "'A Land Set Apart': Disease, Displacement, and Death at Makanalua, Moloka'i." PhD dissertation, University of Hawaii, 2004. 324 pp. Examines the nineteenth-century Hawaiian experience with leprosy, in particular a leprosy settlement established on the island of Moloka'i, from a cultural and environmental perspective.

Larsen, Eric L. "Situating Identity: An Archaeology and Representation of Race and Community in Annapolis, Maryland." PhD dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2005. 437 pp. Examines the role of space in the processes of racialization that occurred in Annapolis, Maryland, from 1870 to 1930. Landscape study focused on the Courthouse Block, once part of the city's African American community.

Manspeizer, Ilyssa. "Considering Wildlife Conservation in Zambia at the Turn of the Millennium." PhD Dissertation, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2004. 359 pp. Examines the historical, political, theoretical, and social context of wildlife conservation and utilization in Zambia, Africa from the arrival of the British South Africa Company in the late nineteenth century until the turn of the millennium. Tracks changes in policy from a purely exclusionary stance to what is now known as community-based natural resource management.

Mason, Joseph Lawrence. "War and Peace, Environment and Society: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, and the Second World War, 1940–1955." PhD dissertation, University of Iowa, 2004. 243 pp. Explores the impact of World War II on the ecology and society of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.

Orth, Joel Jason. "The Conservation Landscape: Trees and Nature on the Great Plains." PhD Dissertation, Iowa State University, 2004. 383 pp. Traces the development of a socially constructed, "conservation landscape" on the Great Plains from the mid-1800s through the 1970s.

Rempel, Jane. "Rural Settlement and Elite Representation: Social Change in the Bosporan Kingdom in the Fourth Century B.C." PhD Dissertation, University of Michigan, 2004. 279 pp. Examines the environmental and social aspects of the expansion of the Bosporan Kingdom on the margins of ancient Greece to include Greek and native populations within its borders. Explores rural settlement, road networks, and systems of land use, locating indigenous populations as active participants in the "new" Bosporan environment.

Sharp, Leslie N. "Women Shaping Shelter: Technology, Consumption and the Twentieth-Century House." PhD dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004. 384 pp. Examines the relationship between women and the material world, exploring how class, race, and region determined the extent to which women were able to influence physical spaces, especially residential architecture, in twentieth-century America.

Tiedje, Kristina. "Mapping Nature, Constructing Culture: The Cultural Politics of Place in the Huasteca, Mexico." PhD dissertation, University of Oregon, 2004. 511 pp. Using ethnographic description and anthropological interpretation, explores how identity is linked to place in the landscape of Huasteca, Mexico, covering over five hundred years of historical, social, political, and economic change, 16th through twentieth centuries.

Turkel, William J. "The Archive of Place: Environment and the Contested Past of a North American Plateau." PhD Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. Examines three case studies of 1990s conflict over natural resources on the Chilcotin Plateau in west-central modern-day British Columbia, exploring the role that interpretation of material evidence from the past plays in historical consciousness and social memory.

Turner, James Morton. "The Promise of Wilderness: A History of American Environmental Politics, 1964–1994." PhD dissertation, Princeton University, 2004. 360 pp. Uses the modern wilderness movement, beginning with the Wilderness Act of 1964, as a lens through which to view the transformation of the American environmental movement from grassroots to professional, philosophically unified to fragmented, and from bipartisan to politicized.

Zurcher, Antonia. "Spirituality and the Environment." M.A. Thesis, Prescott College, 2004. 365 pp. Explores the relationship of spirituality to the natural environment, with the objective of elucidating the historical context that has fostered a cultural acceptance of human dominion over inanimate and animate nature. Compares the foundations of ancient cultures and Western civilization to the twentieth century, influenced by pagan and Judeo-Christian religion.

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