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biblioscope

AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Breunig, Lydia Ann. "Conservation in Context: Establishing Natural Protected Areas during Mexico's Neoliberal Reformation." PhD Dissertation, University of Arizona, 2006. 344 pp. Examines connections between political economy and natural area conservation in Mexico during the neoliberal reformation of the late 1980s-mid 1990s.

Bryan, Jimmy L., Jr. "The American Elsewhere: Adventurism and Manliness in the Age of Expansion, 1815–1848." PhD Dissertation, Southern Methodist University, 2006. 269 pp. Examines the cultural phenomenon of adventurism in the early- nineteenth-century American West, arguing that it contributed to masculine identity formation, as well as racial and gendered justifications of U.S. expansion.

Buckley, Eve E. "Drought and Development: Technocrats and the Politics of Modernization in Brazil's Semi-Arid Northeast, 1877–1964." PhD Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2006. 344 pp. Examines technical assistance provided by engineers, medical sanitarians, agronomists and economists to alleviate drought in Northeast Brazil, late nineteenth-mid-twentieth centuries. Considers intellectual and political constraints on scientists' abilities to address the drought crisis, focusing on the period from 1909 to 1959.

Carloni, Kenneth R. "The Ecological Legacy of Indian Burning Practices in Southwestern Oregon." PhD Dissertation, Oregon States University, 2006. 181pp. Explores how culture- and climate-driven processes have contributed to ecosystem change in the Little River study area of Southwestern Oregon. Tests the relative influence of humans vs. climate in landscape change during Aboriginal (pre-1820) as opposed to Euro-Agrarian (1850–1950) cultural periods, focusing on correlation with fire-related behavior.

Drake, Brian Allen. "The Unnatural State: Conservatives, Libertarians, and the Postwar American Environmental Movement." PhD Dissertation, University of Kansas, 2006. 449 pp. Uses four case studies — of Senator Barry Goldwater (1909–1998), right-wing antiflouridation in the 1960s, "free-market" environmentalism in the 1970s-1980s, and environmental author Edward Abbey — to argue that conservatives, libertarians and environmentalists have influenced each other in important and complex ways during the post-World War II period.

Fitzpatrick, John T. "Cultivating and Preserving American Wild Flowers, 1890–1965." PhD Dissertation, Cornell University, 2006. 546 pp. Examines support for the cultivation of native plants during the 1890–1965 period, including rhetoric promoting human and environmental health benefits. Focusing on the United States Northeast and mid-Atlantic, discusses the formation of native plant preserves and public native plant gardens.

Hoff, Derek. "Are We Too Many? The Population Debate and Policymaking in the Twentieth-Century United States." PhD Dissertation, University of Virginia, 2006. 522 pp. Examines debates among social scientists, interest groups and policymakers about population and population growth in the United States during the twentieth century. Highlights political, economic, and intellectual impacts of debates over population, in particular the rise and fall of Keynesianism from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Hollsten, Laura J. "Knowing Nature: Knowledge of Nature in Seventeenth-Century French and English Travel Accounts for the Caribbean." PhD Dissertation, Abo Akademi (Finland), 2006. 287pp. Studies knowledge of nature as reflected in seventeenth-century travel accounts and natural histories of the Caribbean written by English and French explorers. Argues that these accounts can provide important insights into the history of environmental thought.

Hurt, Lee Anne. "The Huacas of Machu Picchu: Inca Stations for the Communion between Humanity and Nature." PhD Dissertation, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2006. 371 pp. Examines and documents huacas, or sacred stones used to reference prominent landscape features, at the ancient Inca site of Machu Picchu in Peru. Argues that huacas defined the relationship between ritual and nature by visually orienting ceremonial participants to elements of the surrounding environment.

Jacobson, Michael E. "The Rise and Fall of Place: The Development of a Sense of Place and Community in Colorado's Southern Coalfields, 1890–1930." PhD Dissertation, SUNY Binghamton, 2006. 464 pp. Explores the effects of the 1913–1914 Colorado Coalfield War on the development of corporate communities in southern Colorado between 1890 and 1930. Compares data related to the landscape in the coal camp of Berwind to the Ludlow striker's colony to examine the development of a sense of place among miners and their families.

Krause, Robert E., Jr. "An Environmental History of the Illinois River Basin in Eastern Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas." Master's thesis, Oklahoma State University, 2006. 114 pp. Landforms, resource use, environmental protection and advocacy in the Illinois River watershed, 1818 through the 2000s.

McKinney, Tom W. "Superhighway Deluxe: Houston's Gulf Freeway." PhD Dissertation, University of Houston, 2006. 272 pp. History of the construction and social and environmental impacts of the Gulf Freeway in Houston, Texas, 1940s–2000s.

Nauta, Lauren. "Medical Development in Colonial India: Seasonality, Specialization, and Efficacy in the Punjab Plains, 1870–1930." PhD Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2006. 567 pp. Socio-environmental history of medical development in the Punjab plains region of India, 1870–1930. Studies the agrarian health environment of Punjab, the seasonal basis of sickness, and the development of specializations along lines of class and gender among healers and healing institutions.

Onuf, Alexandra K. "Local Terrains: The "Small Landscape" Prints and the Depiction of the Countryside in Early Modern Antwerp." PhD Dissertation, Columbia University, 2006. 450 pp. Examines the mid-sixteenth century Small Landscape prints, depicting landscape scenes around Antwerp, Belgium, focusing on their publisher, Hieronymus Cock. Argues that the prints had cultural as well as aesthetic value for their purchasers, as Antwerp's urban citizens turned increasingly to the country for economic and spiritual renewal.

Piazza, Millicent Mei-Ling. "Political-Economic Transitions and Environmental Change in Micronesian Island States: A Case Study in the Republic of Palau." PhD Dissertation, University of Michigan, 2006. 219 pp. Using the Republic of Palau as a case study, explores the impacts of economic development on the environments of Small Island Developing States in Micronesia. Seeks to understand why environmental degradation continues to occur despite cultural traditions of conservation and stewardship. Relies primarily on interviews conducted in 2002.

Prieto, Alberto. "Landscape Organization in Magna Graecia." PhD Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 2006. 301 pp. Reevaluates the study of ancient agricultural territories attached to Greek colonies in the southern part of the Italian peninsula.

Robinson, Todd E. "A City Within a City: The Social and Economic Construction of Segregated Space in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1945–1975." PhD Dissertation, University of Michigan, 2006. 328 pp. Examines metropolitan spatial stratification in Grand Rapids, Michigan, during the post-World-War-II era of civil rights struggles. Challenges traditional notions of urban development, illustrating how the construction of segregated space came about as a result of discriminatory structural forces in the areas of housing and schools.

Willis, Roxanne R. "Making Alaska American: Environment and Development in a Foreign Land." PhD dissertation, Yale University, 2006. 208 pp. Examines the environmental consequences of five Alaskan development schemes: turn-of-the-century arctic reindeer herding, the development of Alaskan agriculture, the construction of the Alaskan highway, the proposed Rampart Dam on the Yukon River, and the building of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

Yustin, Michael A. "Historical Analysis of Development and its Impact on the Ecology of the Grassy Waters Preserve." Master's thesis, Florida Atlantic University, 2006. 106 pp. Documents human impact on Florida's Grassy Waters Preserve in the second half of the twentieth century, including highways, canals/levees, development, and landfills, correlating them with environmental change.

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