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Biblioscope

An Archival Guide & Bibliography

Theses and Dissertations

Chiang, Connie Young. "Shaping the Shoreline: Environment, Society, and Culture in Monterey, California." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 2002. 397. Uses Monterey, California as a case study to examine the social and environmental history of the American coastline during the twentieth century. Focuses on sardine fishing industry, tourism, and changing race, class, and labor relations of the city during the period.

Gilbert, Robert Lind. "Dividing Alaska: Native Claims, Statehood and Wilderness Preservation." Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002. 844 pp. Provides historical background on how the indigenous people of Alaska, most especially the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN), and the U.S. Congress formed a compromise regarding the economic development and land use policy of Alaska, soon after it became a state in 1959. Focuses on the 1971 Alaska Claims Settlement Act that established national parks and wildlife refuges, granted companies access to land to drill for oil, and paid indigenous people money, while also providing them with land to enable them to preserve access to subsistence resources.

Gillespie, Gregory Eric. "The Imperial Embrace: British Sportsmen and the Appropriation of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Canada." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Western Ontario (Canada), 2002. 206 pp. Analysis of travel writings by British hunters exploring nineteenth-century Canada.

Holt, David Harms. "Did Extreme Climate Conditions Stimulate the Migrations of the Germanic Tribes in the 3rd and 4th Centuries AD? An Examination of Historical Data, Climate Proxy Data, and Migration Events." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arkansas, 2002. 321 pp. Argues that tree ring and palynological evidence suggest that the droughts present in Europe during the third and fourth centuries caused both migrations and invasions of the indigenous tribes of Germania.

Mutchler, Jack Cooper, Jr. "Community of Conflict: Work, Nature, and Wilderness; Ranching on the Diamond Bar, 1897–1997." Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 2002. 455 pp. Uses the Diamond Bar Ranch of southwestern New Mexico as a case study to explore the social history of people who rely upon public land for their livelihoods during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Other topics include, national forests, grazing, ranching, and wilderness areas.

Richardson, Cynthia Watkins. "Picturing Nature: Education, Ornithology and Photography in the Life of Cordelia Stanwood, 1865–1958." Ph.D. dissertation (History), University of Maine, 2002. xii + 256 pp. Illustrations. Biographical study of Cordelia J. Stanwood (1865–1958), who worked as an ornithologist, naturalist, nature writer and photographer, and early environmentalist in Ellsworth, Maine.

Rosmarino, Nicole Jeanne. "Endangered Species Act Under Fire: Controversies, Science, Values and the Law." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002. 497 pp. Legislative history of the Endangered Species Act studying the political and philosophical debates impacting its implementation since the time it was passed into law in 1973, through its various key amendments in 1978, 1982, and 1988, to the present.

Scharf, Elizabeth Ann. "Long-Term Interactions of Climate, Vegetation, Humans, and Fire in Eastern Washington." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 2002. 382 pp. Study of the long-term history of the Columbia Plateau of Washington State, based on prehistoric records, such as pollen, charcoal, and oxygen-isotopes gathered from lake sediments. Focuses on changes in vegetation, climate, fire, and human population at the Columbia Plateau for over a millennium.

Schmieding, Samuel Joseph. "Visions of a Sculptured Paradise: The Colorado Plateau as American Sacred Space." Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona State University, 2002. 757 pp. Examines the transformation of the Colorado Plateau in Utah from an obscure land mass into a sacred space; nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Tropp, Jacob Abram. "Roots and Rights in the Transkei: Colonialism, Natural Resources, and Social Change, 1880–1940." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2002. 423 pp. Explores Transkei (South Africa), in particular the KwaMatiwane region between 1880 and 1940, in order to shed light on the conflicts between colonial powers and the indigenous populations about forest utilization and land use.

Zhou, Yushuang. "Development of Integrated Prognostic Models of Land Use/Land Cover Change: Case Studies in Brazil and China." Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State University, 2002. 190 pp. Uses the Brazilian Amazon and the East region of China as case studies to examine how land use and forest cover have changed in developing countries during the twentieth century. Other topics include urban sprawl and deforestation.

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