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biblioscope

AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Arakaki, Jon S. "From Abstract to Concrete: Press Promotion, Progress, and the Dams of the Mid-Columbia (1928–1958)." PhD Dissertation, University of Oregon, 2006. 246 pp. Examines local press promotion leading to federal approval of funding for four large dams along the Columbia River constructed between 1933 and 1968. Focuses on communication of the idea of progress, arguing that it created unrealistic expectations for cheap hydro-electric power and expanded river navigation.

Arce-Nazario, Javier A. "Reconstructing Amazonian Ecological Memory: How Humans and Rivers Shape the Peruvian Landscape." PhD Dissertation, Columbia University, 2006. 195 pp. Analyzes the concept of "ecological memory," using land cover change research, remote sensing, forest ecology, and oral history to explore how such memories are preserved, erased and fed back into the landscape. Reconstructs the ecological memories of a rural landscape in the Peruvian Amazon floodplain from 1948–2000s.

Bolender, Douglas J. "The Creation of a Propertied Landscape: Land Tenure and Agricultural Investment in Medieval Iceland." PhD Dissertation, Northwestern University, 2006. 249 pp. Based on archaeological research conducted in the Langholt region of northern Iceland, explores the emergence of social complexity and the relationship between property status and agricultural intensification during the medieval period. Investigates the role of tenancy in emerging political economies and the interactions between environmental degradation, property, and intensification.

Gabbert, Ann R. "Defining the Boundaries of Care: Local Responses to Global Concerns in El Paso Public Health Policy, 1881–1941." PhD Dissertation, University of Texas at El Paso, 2006. 587 pp. Examines public health policy as a means of establishing and enforcing segregation in El Paso, Texas in the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Argues that public health officials used discriminatory policies in seeking to prevent the spread of disease by improving certain communities' environmental infrastructure, and by subjecting certain population groups (mostly immigrants and women) to inspection and control.

Padolsky, Miriam E. "Bringing Climate Change Down to Earth: Science and Participation in Canadian and Australian Climate Change Campaigns." PhD Dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2006. 296 pp. Examines climate change campaigns in Canada and Australia as cases of science in the public sphere, exploring the use of science by various campaign institutions (government versus non-government) and the effects of the national policy environment of the late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries.

Payne, Brian J. "Fishing a Borderless Sea: Environmental Territorialism in the North Atlantic, 1818–1910." PhD Dissertation, University of Maine, 2006. 358 pp. Examines conflicting claims of authority in North Atlantic fisheries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, arguing that American and Canadian policies did not reflect the territorialism demonstrated by fishermen, who structured their version of proper stewardship according to modes of production. Contends that the source of overexploitation of fishing stocks was largely philosophical in nature.

Prins, Peter Gideo. "Group Preferences for Rural Amenities and Farmland Preservation in the Niagara Fruit Belt." Master's thesis, University of Waterloo (Canada), 2006. 201 pp. Analysis of the preference for different rural amenities and farmland preservation in the Niagara Region of Canada based on a survey and interviews conducted with both farmers and the non-farm population.

Stone, Raymond C. "'He That is Not With Us is Against Us': Apocalypticism and Millennialism in American Literature and Culture, 1630–1860." PhD Dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2006. 209 pp. Examines the influence of apocalypticism in American culture from 1630 to 1860. Explores Puritan millennialism and the devaluation of nature in the writings of John Winthrop, Cotton Mather, and others; nineteenth-century westward expansion and "manifest destiny" as a "reoccupation" of Puritan views of the subjugation of wilderness; and the writings of James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne as critiques of postmillennial imperialism and utopianism.

Unger, Kurt L. "A Holistic Approach to Balancing Growth, Agriculture and the Environment in the Upper Carson River Basin." PhD Dissertation, University of Nevada, Reno, 2006. 277 pp. History of and recommendations for water rights management and conflict resolution in Nevada's Carson River region.

Wentz, Rachel K. "A Bioarchaeological Assessment of Health from Florida's Archaic: Application of the Western Hemisphere Health Index to the Remains from Windover (8BR246)." PhD Dissertation, Florida State University, 2006. 138 pp. Applies the Western Hemisphere Health Index to human remains excavated in the 1980s from a mortuary pond at Windover, near Florida's eastern coast. Assesses the overall health of the Archaic Windover population and compares it to a variety of other geographic regions and subsistence practices.

White, Dustin. "Holocene Climate and Culture Change in the Lake Baikal Region, Siberia (Russia)." PhD Dissertation, University of Alberta, 2006. 206 pp. Reports on multidisciplinary research investigating the relationship between climate and Holocene cultural change among hunter-gatherers in the Lake Baikal region of southern Siberia. The study is designed to examine discontinuity in social complexity during the Middle Neolithic within the context of changing climatic and environmental conditions.

Yungang, Lio. "The Poverty, Environmental Issues and the Change of Urban Human Activity Spaces in Chinese Mining Cities." PhD Dissertation, University of Tokyo, 2006. 133 pp. Investigates industrial stagnation, poverty, environmental pollution and change in urban human activity spaces in Chinese mining cities, particularly Liaoyuan City, 1950s-2000s. Text in Japanese.

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