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biblioscope

AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Carter, Eric D. "Disease, Science, and Regional Development: Malaria Control in Northwest Argentina, 1890–1950." PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005. 553 pp. Examines the rise and eradication of malaria in Northwest Argentina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Argues that the state-led malaria control program was motivated by concerns over regional development and integration and state formation.

Eves, Jamie. "A Valley White with Mist: Settlers, Nature, and Culture in a North Woods River Valley, 1800–1870." PhD dissertation, University of Connecticut, 2005. 376 pp. Examines the ecological and cultural adaptations made by migrants from Southern New England to the Piscataquis River Valley in Maine (the North Woods) between 1800 and 1870.

Haggerty, Julia Hobson. "A Ranchland Genealogy: Land, Livestock and Community in the Upper Yellowstone Valley, 1866–2004." PhD dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2004. 320 pp. History of livestock production in the Upper Yellowstone Valley of Park County, Montana, focusing on business practices, land tenure, ranch work and the environment.

Hungate, Adam B. "Let Them Eat Yellowcake: Navajo Uranium and American Marginalization." PhD dissertation, University of California at Riverside, 2005. 277 pp. Study of Navajo experiences with uranium mining, milling, and resulting health problems, 1940s-2005, in the context of federal Indian policies and the progressive marginalization of the Navajo by the United States government.

Iannacone, Rachel E. "Open Space for the Underclass: New York's Small Parks (1880–1915)." PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2005. 396 pp. Examines the interplay of social, political and architectural theories in New York City's Small Parks Movement at the turn of the twentieth century, including the roles of designers like Frederick Law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux, and Samuel Parsons, Jr.

Iannini, Christopher. "Fatal Revolutions: United States Natural Histories of the Greater Caribbean, 1707–1856." PhD dissertation, City University of New York, 2004. 315 pp. Examines American natural historical depictions of the West Indian environments, societies and commodities by such figures as J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, William Bartram, John Audubon, and Alexander von Humboldt, from the signing of the Treaties of Utrecht in the early 18th century through the antebellum period.

McFarland, Morgan J. "The Watery World: The Country of the Illinois, 1699–1778." PhD dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2005. 333 pp. Challenges traditional historical accounts of Illinois that depict its natural environment in the eighteenth century as untouched, exploring the effects of European occupation and arguing that environmental degradation played a role in the occupation as well as the depopulation of Indian tribes. Focuses specifically on the role of water in the lives of Illinois inhabitants during the period.

Moranda, Scott. "The Dream of a Therapeutic Regime: Nature Tourism in the German Democratic Republic, 1945–1978." PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005. 472 pp. Investigates the relationships between tourism, nature, public health, and political legitimacy in the German Democratic Republic between 1945 and 1978.

Novak, Greg. "Toward a Comprehensive Environmental Ethic." PhD dissertation, Northern Illinois University, 2004. 397 pp. Explores the intellectual history of a science-based biocentric environmental ethic as exhibited through the writings of thinkers 19th-20th century thinkers John Howard Moore, Henry Stephens Salt, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Joseph Wood Krutch.

Ortega, Frances T. "Fire in the Belly: A Case Study of Chicana Activists Working Toward Environmental and Social Justice in New Mexico." PhD dissertation, University of New Mexico, 2005. 202 pp. Explores the perspectives of Chicanas working in the environmental and social justice movements in New Mexico through interviews with three veteran organizers/activists.

Pederson, Maureen A. "'Wherever Two or Three Are Gathered:' A Study of the Finnish Settlement at New Finland, Saskatchewan, 1888–1945." Master's thesis, University of Regina (Canada), 2004. 171 pp. History of the first agricultural settlement of Finns on the Canadian prairies in New Finland, Saskatchewan, 1888–1945. Explores the emergence and development of local communities, institutions, and organizations and how they were influenced by factors like tradition and environment.

Rawson, Michael J. "Nature and the City: Boston and the Construction of the American Metropolis, 1820–1920." PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005. 349 pp. Argues that city building in 19th and early-twentieth century America took place through a physical and cultural dialogue with nature, using Boston, Massachusetts as a case study.

Sedarat, Roger. "Crossing History: New England Landscape in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and Robert Lowell." PhD dissertation, Tufts University, 2005. 190 pp. Explores portrayals of the New England landscape in nineteenth and twentieth-century American poetry, arguing that they emerge from conflicting historical forces and definitions of the environment.

Sedrez, Lise. "'The Bay of All Beauties': State and Environment in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1875–1975." PhD dissertation, Stanford University, 2005. 298 pp. History of Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the agencies and institutions that managed its environment between 1875 and 1975.

Sertell, Mary. "Nashville's Lower Broadway: Preservation and Playscapes in the Urban Environment." Master's thesis, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2005. 151 pp. Investigates the evolution of Nashville, Tennessee's Lower Broadway from blighted street into family-oriented tourist attraction, 1970s-1990s.

Smalley, Andrea L. "'The Liberty of Killing a Deer': Histories of Wildlife Use and Political Ecology in Early America." PhD dissertation, Northern Illinois University, 2005. 342 pp. Examines changing wildlife use and perceptions of wildlife by European colonists in Virginia and Kentucky, 1500–1800, through the lens of political ecology.

Vetter, Jeremy. "The Regional Development of Science: Knowledge, Environment, and Field Work in the United States Central Plains and Rocky Mountains, 1860–1920." PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2005. 408 pp. Examines the influence of the environment and capitalism on the production of knowledge in the United States' Central West, late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries.

Wolde-Medhin, Tesfaye. "Highland Farmers and the 'Modernizing' State in Ethiopia: Conjunctures and Disjunctures." PhD dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004. 449 pp. Examines cultural and political relations between indigenous social institutions and practices of highland farmers in Wärrä Himanu and successive forms of the "modernizing" state in Ethiopia, twentieth century-2000s. Explores indigenous knowledge of environment, local community organization, and the impact of globalization.

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