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biblioscope

AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Akiwumi, Fenda A. "Environmental and Social Change in Southwestern Sierra Leone: Timber Extraction (1832–1898) and Rutile Mining (1967–2005)." PhD Dissertation, Texas State University, 2006. 230 pp. Evaluates environmental and social change in southwestern Sierra Leone, West Africa as a result of the nineteenth-century timber trade and rutile, or titanium dioxide, mining in the twentieth century. Uses a conceptual model based on world systems theory.

Anderson, Christopher T. "Nothing Lowly: The Anti-Picturesque in American Nature Poetry." PhD Dissertation, University of Connecticut, 2006. 306 pp. Examines the depiction of "unattractive, repugnant, violent, and disordered" nature innineteenth and twentieth century American poetry and its relationship to the history of science. Argues that the anti-picturesque aesthetic, which validates as beautiful aspects of nature typically considered repellent, emerged in the works of Emerson and Whitman, was expanded by Modernists like T. S. Eliot and Marianne Moore, and continues in contemporary poetry by Theodore Roethke, Gary Snyder, and others.

Andersson, Rikard. "Historical Land-Use Information from Culturally Modified Trees." PhD Dissertation, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2005. 36 pp. Examines the usefulness of Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs) for assessing human activity and impacts on forest ecosystems, especially in northern Scandinavia.

Bird, Mary Dickinson. "Dame Bug and Her Students: The Science and Environmental Teaching of Edith Marion Patch." EdD Dissertation, Harvard University, 2006. 209 pp. Explores the educational ideas and practices of Edith Marion Patch (1876–1954), educator, author of natural history stories, environmental activist, and one of America's first university-trained female entomologists. Analyzes the early twenty-first-century relevance of Patch's work in encouraging scientific literacy, environmental stewardship, and hands-on inquiry in pedagogy.

Candiani, Vera Silvina. "Draining the basin of Mexico: science, technology and society, 1608–1808." PhD (History, Latin America), University of California, Berkeley, 2004. vii + 428 p. The colonial project for the desiccation of the basin of Mexico, known as the Desagüe de Huehuetoca, included river diversions, vast open trenches and a long, deep tunnel. It was designed exclusively to protect elite property in the emerging Spanish viceregal capital of Mexico from floods. The dissertation focuses on the technological actors involved in the Desagüe—friars, guild architects, military engineers, and criollo savants—to explain how this conservatism dampened technological and scientific development.

de Bremond, Ariane C. "Regenerating Conflicted Landscapes: Land, Environmental Governance, and Resettlement in Post-War El Salvador." PhD Dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2006. 342 pp. Traces the history, process and outcomes of El Salvador's Programa de Transferencia de Tierras (PTT), a state-market hybrid land transfer program initiated in the wake of the country's civil war (1980–1992). Examines the narratives that shaped the PTT, the social dynamics of land transfer and parcelization, and the effects on landscapes.

Duke-Sylvester, Scott M. "Applying Landscape-Scale Modeling to Everglades Restoration." PhD Dissertation, University of Tennessee, 2006. 187 pp. Describes the application of historical data in combination with three spatial landscape-scale models—vegetation succession, fire, and invasive plant spread/control—to address aspects of ecological restoration of Florida's Everglades.

Grant, Michael J. "The Palaeoecology of Human Impact in the New Forest." PhD Dissertation, University of Southampton (U.K.), 2006. 369 pp. Investigates human impact on natural vegetation development in the New Forest, Southern England, using palaeoenvironmental records covering 10,000 years, primarily pollen and charcoal analyses. Examines disturbance patterns including fire and invasive species.

Hanley, Patrick. "Emerson's Perfect Chain: Education and the Reconciliation of Nature and Justice." EdD Dissertation, Harvard University, 2006. 235 pp. Explores evidence of a symbiotic relationship between love for nature and social justice in the lives and thought of early nineteenth-century New England Transcendentalists, primarily Ralph Waldo Emerson. Examines the potential role of education in encouraging a deeper philosophical relationship between the two traditions during Emerson's time and in the early twenty-first century.

Hardy, Donna M. "An Examination of the Inhabitants of Southern New England and Their Relationship to the Land: A Historical Analysis, 1500–2006." Master's thesis, Southern Connecticut State University, 2006. 98 pp. Compares the cultural land ethic of seventeenth-century English colonists with that of American Indians, particularly the Mohegon and Mashantucket Pequot, in southern New England. Explores the influences of religion and spirituality, science, and capitalist economics, concluding that Indians of the period were "more environmentally aware" than the dominant settler culture.

Hurst, Christopher A. "Sinker Cypress: Treasures of a Lost Landscape." Master's thesis, Louisiana State University, 2005. 117 pp. Examines Louisiana's sinker cypress industry, or the recovery of timbers that were lost during transit from swamps to mills in the industrial period from 1880–1930. Explores the development of and policies regulating underwater cypress salvage from the 1880s onward.

Little, Jeremy A. "Pathways and Pavilions in a Chesapeake Bay Landscape, Eastern Shore, Maryland." Master's thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, 2006. 78 pp. Proposes the architectural design for an environmental, cultural Chesapeake Bay park that combines form, sustainability, and the history of the Bay.

Muscolino, Micah S. "Fishing for Profits: Environment and Society Off the China Coast, 1840–1958." PhD Dissertation, Harvard University, 2006. 317 pp. Examines environmental change in the fisheries of China's Zhoushan Archipelago, 1840s-1950s, relating local history to larger issues of economic development, foreign influence, and state formation, while calling attention to the environmental consequences of these processes.

Pearson, Chris. "War on the Land: An Environmental History of the Second World War and its Aftermath in South Eastern France." PhD Dissertation, University of Bristol (UK), 2006. 397 pp. Investigates the material and cultural landscapes of World War II in southeastern France, focusing on impacts on the maquis (a type of high ground covered with scrub growth), forests, marshlands, and mountain habitats. Includes chapters on postwar environmental reconstruction and landscapes of memory.

Vail, David D. "'The Thirsty Places of the Earth': Politics, Environment, and the Contentious History of Utah's Cache County Water Conservation District No. 1." Master's thesis, Utah State University, 2006. 128 pp. Explores early twentieth-century social, political, and environmental conflict in west side of Utah's Cache Valley, especially Petersboro and Cache Junction, re-evaluating the "homogenous success story of the irrigated Mormon West."

Warnes, Kathleen C. "River Town, River World: The History of Ecorse, the Oldest Downriver Community." PhD Dissertation, University of Toledo, 2006. 403 pp. Examines the evolution of the small river village of Ecorse, Michigan and the social, geographical, environmental, industrial and political forces that have shaped its history (eighteenth through early twenty-first centuries).

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