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biblioscope

AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Allen, Susan E. "A Living Landscape: The Palaeoethnobotany of Sovjan, Albania." Ph.D. Dissertation, Boston University, 2005. 550 pp. Examines long-term processes of human interaction with the former wetland environment of southeastern Albania using archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological evidence from the Neolithic to Early Iron Age site of Sovjan (ca. 7600BC-900BC).

Azenha, Gustavo S. "Conservation, Sustainable Development, and 'Traditional' People: Pataxo Ethnoecology and Conservation Paradigms in Southern Bahia, Brazil." Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University, 2005. 549 pp. Examines the relationship between "traditional" peoples and conservation initiatives, focusing on the conflict between the Pataxo Indians and the Parque Nacional Monte Pascoal (PNMP) in Porto Seguro, Bahia (Brazil), which came to a head in 1999. Provides historical context for southern Bahia from the 1800s, and argues that sustainable development strategies that value "traditional" knowledge do little to empower traditional peoples.

Booker, Matthew Morse. "Real Estate and Refuge: An Environmental History of San Francisco Bay's Tidal Wetlands, 1846–1972." Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 2005. 309 pp. History of the tidal margin on San Francisco Bay, California, tracing physical changes to and human development of the tidelands from 1846 to 1972, culminating with the designation of a large portion of the bay's tidal habitats as the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge.

Britton, Glenn W. "'Improving' the Middle Landscape: Conservation and Social Change in Rural Southern Michigan, 1890 to 1940." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005. 437 pp. Examines rural transformation in Southern Michigan at the turn of the twentieth century, arguing that farmers and rural leaders were the key figures in Progressive-era agricultural change by employing mixed strategies and contributing to the enclosure of the commons.

Carey, Mark P. "People and Glaciers in the Peruvian Andes: A History of Climate Change and Natural Disasters, 1941–1980." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Davis, 2005. 302 pp. Analyzes the effects of glacier melting, leading to avalanches and floods, on politics, economics, and culture in twentieth-century Peru. Examines historical interactions among scientists, hydroelectric developers, government officials, and local residents in relation to glacier disasters.

Carloni, Kenneth R. "The Ecological Legacy of Indian Burning Practices in Southwestern Oregon." Ph.D. Dissertation, Oregon State University, 2006. 181 pp. Explores culture- and climate-driven contributions to ecosystem change in Southwestern Oregon during the Aboriginal (pre-1820) and Euro-Agrarian (1850–1920) periods. Focus on the Little River watershed.

Carlson, Hans M. "Home is the Hunter: Subsistence, Reciprocity, and the Negotiation of Cultural Environment Among the James Bay Cree." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maine, 2005. 505 pp. Environmental and cultural history of interaction between the James Bay Cree and the European settlers in Quebec, Canada, seventeenth-twentieth centuries. Focuses on the effects of the fur trade, missionary and government activity, and the importance of subsistence hunting in maintaining Cree connections to the land.

Casey, Kathleen. "Noise Making Subjects." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California at San Diego, 2005. 274 pp. Analyzes scientific efforts to measure human responses to noise, or unwanted sound, in the United States, 1920s-2000s. Seeks to demonstrate how noise measurements reflect larger cultural and economic values.

Chronopoulos, Themis. "Disorderly Space: Power Relations and the Postwar Decline of New York City." Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University, 2005. 319 pp. Examines urban planning efforts by New York City policymakers, 1940s-1990s, to reclaim neighborhoods and open spaces perceived as disorderly and declining. Argues that racial minorities suffered disproportionately from the restructuring and developed public strategies of resistance.

Clary, Amy. "Textual Terrain: Wilderness in American Literature, Law and Culture." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2005. 220 pp. Examines the relationship between American land-use law and twentieth century environmental writing, arguing that policy is shaped by representations of wilderness in literature and popular culture. Reviews wilderness in American literary history from the eighteenth century-twentieth centuries.

DiFranco, Aaron K. "Available Ground: Shaping American Nature Poetry." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Davis, 2005. 297 pp. Examines the nature/culture dynamic in American poetry, focusing on symbolism related to pastoralism, forestlands, and wildlife in the works of nineteenth-twentieth century poets including Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Robinson Jeffers, and A. R. Ammons.

Foley, Brian R. "The Meeman Archive: Its Place in History and Its Uncertain Future." Master's thesis, Michigan State University, 2005. 67 pp. History and overview of the Meeman Archive of environmental newspaper articles, begun in 1982 and housed at Michigan State University's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism.

Ingraham, Anthony D. "A Walk Through Watkins Glen, Water's Sculpture in Stone: An Interpretive Guide to the Natural and Cultural History of Watkins Glen State Park, New York." M.A.L.S. paper, State University of New York, Empire State College, 2005. 179 pp. Guidebook to the natural and cultural history of Watkins Glen State Park in New York, discussing its geologic formation and changes in people's relationship to the landscape.

Kaye, Roger. "The Campaign to Establish a Last Great Wilderness: The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2005. 295 pp. Detailed twentieth-century political history of the effort to establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Northeast Alaska, exploring the historic, cultural, philosophical, and scientific underpinnings of the campaign.

Keller, Vagel, Jr. "Forgotten Brownfields: Rural Industrial Districts in Pennsylvania, 1870–1930." Ph.D. Dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005. 289 pp. Focuses on the environmental effects of the wood chemical, leather, and merchant pig iron industries of rural Pennsylvania, urging the examination of the effects of industrialization on rural landscapes, late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries.

Lifset, Robert D. "Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism, 1962–1980." Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 2005. 548 pp. Examines the environmental struggle over New York's Storm King Mountain, 1962–1980, arguing that it changed environmental politics and greatly contributed to the nascent environmental movement, in part by bridging it with earlier conservation impulses.

Shapiro, Aaron. "'One Crop Worth Cultivating': Tourism in the Upper Great Lakes, 1910–1965." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 2005. 500 pp. Examines the labor, environmental, urban, rural, and political histories of tourism in the twentieth-century Upper Great Lakes region of northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and southwestern Ontario, Canada. Explores the impact of the development of the tourist industry on the region's land, people, and institutions.

Steen-Adams, Michelle. "Change on a Northern Wisconsin Landscape: Legacies of Human History." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005. 305 pp. Investigates how land ownership and other economic, cultural, and political facets of the human past have directed landscape change in northern Wisconsin, focusing on the effects of the Great Lakes cutover, late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries.

Thorwald, Heather. "Protecting Land, Preserving History: Jefferson County Open Space and Its Historic Properties." Master's thesis, University of Colorado at Denver, 2005. 169 pp. Case study of historic preservation in conflict and cooperation with open space conservation in Jefferson County, Colorado, late twentieth century.

Vaccaro Ribo, Ismael. "The Polysemous Valley: Modernity and Landscape Politics in the Catalan Pyrenees." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, 2005. 330 pp. Historical and ethnographic study of state formation, landscape transformation, and corresponding political and local social responses to modernity in Spain, focusing on the upper watershed of the Llobregat River, primarily nineteenth-twentieth centuries.

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