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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Albritton Johnson, Fredrik. "The Enlightenment in the Highlands: Natural History and Internal Colonization in the Scottish Enlightenment, 1760–1830." PhD Dissertation, University of Chicago, 2005. 326 pp. Examines the role of "internal colonization" ideology in the rise and fall of the Scottish Highland economy between 1760 and 1830 on three levels: as an alliance of landowners and intellectuals within the Scottish Enlightenment; as a scientific project of resource inventory and environmental engineering; and as an "alternative mythology of northern exoticism."

Allen, Mahalley D. "A Voice for the Voiceless: The Politics of the Animal Rights Movement." PhD Dissertation, University of Kansas, 2005. 240 pp. Broadly explores political tactics, strategies, and public perceptions of the contemporary animal rights movement in the United States, 1975–2000s.

Berry, Michelle K. "Cow Talk: Ecology, Culture, and Power in the Intermountain West Range Cattle Industry, 1945–1965." PhD Dissertation, University of Arizona, 2005. 488 pp. Cultural history of range cattle ranchers in the intermountain states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico from 1945–1965. Examines how the creation of a "dominant ranch culture" during this period helped ranchers to assert claims to political, economic, and environmental power.

Corbin, Devin D. "The Work of Belonging: Agricultural Improvement, Romantic Wilderness, and the Rise of Restorationism in United States Environmental Literature." PhD Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2005. 241 pp. Explores the tension between two precedents to ecological restorationism in American environmental literature: agricultural improvement and Romantic wilderness rhetoric. Examines eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century works including Henry David Thoreau's Walden (1854), John Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra (1911), and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac (1949).

Damrow, Christine B. "'Every Child in a Garden': Radishes, Avocado Pits, and the Education of American Children in the Twentieth Century." PhD Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005. 400 pp. Traces the changing history of educational gardening for American children over the course of the twentieth century, including the effects of Progressivism, World War II, suburbanization, and the environmental education movement.

Goertzen, Jennifer A. "Controversy and Compromise: The Creation of Kananaskis Country." Master's thesis, University of Calgary, 2005. 133 pp. History of the Kananaskis Country recreation area in Alberta, Canada, officially established in 1978. Provides background on the region's land use history and inhabitants, and the development of Alberta's provincial park system in the early-to-mid-twentieth century, and explores competing economic and environmental concerns in the park's administration since its creation.

Gugliotta, Angela. "'Hell With the Lid Taken Off': A Cultural History of Air Pollution—Pittsburgh." PhD Dissertation, University of Notre Dame, 2005. 691 pp. Examines the meaning of coal smoke to the inhabitants of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, asking why, when, and for whom smoke became a problem in the city's history.

Hay, Amy M. "Recipe for Disaster: Chemical Wastes, Community Activists, and Public Health at Love Canal, 1945–2000." PhD Dissertation, Michigan State University, 2005. 339 pp. Examines women's grassroots activism in Niagara Falls, New York and its interface with government, scientific, and medical "experts," complicating and expanding traditional accounts of the Love Canal controversy. Mid-to-late twentieth century.

Henderson, Andrea D. "Reconstructing Home: Gender, Disaster Relief, and Social Life after the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906–1915." PhD Dissertation, Stanford University, 2005. 265 pp. Explores the social repercussions of the distortion of urban space that occurred in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, arguing that the disaster broke down barriers between private and public life. Examines themes of gender, progressive politics, and the relationship between social identity and urban space.

Horning, Gloria G. "Social Network and Environmental Justice: A Case Study in Perry, Florida." PhD Dissertation, Florida State University, 2005. 170 pp. Case study of the community organization against water pollution from the Procter & Gamble/Buckeye Pulp Mill in Perry, Florida, examining community mobilization, collective identity, personal empowerment, and information exchange in environmental justice movements. twentieth century.

Ibrahim, Farhana. "Mobility, Territory and Memory in Kachchh: The Making of a Region in Western India." PhD Dissertation, Cornell University, 2006. 356 pp. Ethnographic study of Kachchh, a district in the Indian state of Gujarat (along the border with Pakistan), exploring how people negotiate, embody, and articulate the meaning of place in relation to nationalist ideologies. Examines the historical role of religious institutions in the settlement of frontier populations across the Kachchh-Sindh border.

McNeil, Bryan T. "Searching for Home Where Mountains Move: The Collision of Economy, Environment, and an American Community." PhD Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005. 331 pp. Examines conflict over mountaintop removal coal mining in the Coal River region of West Virginia, focusing on a local grassroots organization called Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW), which, the author argues, challenges common notions of activism and environmentalism. Traces the history of the mining industry alongside that of coalfield communities and the United Mine Workers Union, primarily late twentieth century.

Pelletier, Louis-Raphael. "Revolutionising Landscapes: Hydroelectricity and the Heavy Industrialisation of Society and Environment in the Comté de Beauharnois, 1927–1948." PhD Dissertation, Carleton University, 2005. 336 pp. Analyzes the industrialization and hydroelectric development of the rural Comté de Beauharnois and adjacent areas of Quebec, Canada, between 1927 and 1948. Using the records of the Beauharnois Light, Heat and Power Company, argues that the finance-capitalist reorganization of Quebec revolved around social as well as environmental control.

Philp, James A. "The Lewis and Clark Geosystem: A Distributed Historical Geospatial Application Portal of the Lewis and Clark Trail." PhD Dissertation, University of Montana, 2005. 232 pp. Reports on the Lewis and Clark Geosystem, an interdisciplinary, collaborative effort combining private and public sector projects to build a distributed geospatial system for the exploration of the historical geography of the Lewis and Clark Trail.

Poliquin, Rachel. "'To Make the Stubborn Clod Relent,' or Climate, Character, and Cultivation in Early Modern England." PhD Dissertation, University of British Columbia, 2005. 258 pp. Examines perceptions and representations of climate, agriculture, and farmers in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, especially by natural historians, and the effects of the enclosure movement in England and its colonies.

Rogers, Thomas D. "The Deepest Wounds: The Laboring Landscapes of Sugar in Northeastern Brazil." PhD Dissertation, Duke University, 2005. 356 pp. Explores the legacies of four centuries of sugar cane agriculture and repressive labor regimes in the Brazilian coastal region of Pernambuco, tracking environmental transformation and perceptions of landscape over the long term and then focusing on the period from 1878 to 1980.

Ruttan, Lia M. "The Truth Was In It: History, Perception, Knowledge, and Relationship in a Subarctic Community." PhD Dissertation, University of Alberta, 2005. 382 pp. Explores historical perceptions of the community of Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada, comparing texts by explorers, traders, and missionaries with the as-lived and storied accounts of Aboriginal Elders. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork, examines competing definitions of what makes history, who holds historical knowledge, and how that knowledge is developed and communicated. nineteenth-twentieth centuries.

Silvaggio, Anthony. "The Forest Defense Movement, 1980–2005: Resistance at the Point of Extraction, Consumption, and Production." PhD Dissertation, University of Oregon, 2005. 302 pp. Explores the history of the direct action forest defense movement in North America, late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries. Examining specific direct action strategies and tactics, traces the movement's history from its early focus on biocentrism to recent leadership in matters of social and ecological justice.

Stein, Amy I. "Flooding the Market: A History of the American Wilderness Image." PhD Dissertation, Northern Arizona University, 2005. 206 pp. Analyzes the evolution and marketing of the American wilderness image through the art criticism of John Ruskin (1819–1900), the photography of Ansel Adams (1902–1984), and Adams's relationship to Sierra Club Executive Director David Brower.

Stewart Burns, Shirley L. "Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities, 1970–2004." PhD Dissertation, West Virginia University, 2005. 242 pp. Examines the environmental, social and cultural impacts of mountaintop removal surface coal mining, as well as opposition to the practice, in communities of southern West Virginia from 1970 to 2004.

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