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Biblioscope

An Archival Guide & Bibliography

Theses and Dissertations

Anderson, Enoch. "The Morning After the Gold Rush: Prentice Mulford and the American Dream." Ph.D. dissertation, Claremont Graduate University, 2002. 233 pp. On the contribution of San Francisco journalist Prentice Mulford (1834–1891) to western American literature. Mulford was a gold miner and a whaler prior to becoming a writer, and his works often discussed such topics.

Arnold, Andrew Bernard. "Ordering Coal: Labor, Law, and Business in Central Pennsylvania, 1870–1900." Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002. 387 pp. Uses the case study of the United Mine Workers (UMW) in Central Pennsylvania to explore the integration of labor unions with America's adaptation to an industrialized society in the late nineteenth century.

Cantrell, Ilana Michele. "Land-use Change in New York State: 1982–1997." Master's thesis, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 2002. 66 pp. The impact of urban development and population growth on open space in New York.

Das, Pallavi V. "Railway Expansion and its Impact on Forests in Colonial India, 1853–1884." Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 2002. 185 pp. Examines the unsustainable use of timber by railroads in India, arguing that British colonial forest policy encouraged economic development at the expense of conservation. Also looks at the influence of scientist Hugh Francis Cleghorn (1820–1895) on the development of colonial forest policy.

Hoag, Heather J. "Designing the Delta: A History of Water and Development in the Lower Rufiji River Basin, Tanzania, 1845–1985." Ph.D. dissertation, Boston University, 2003. 238 pp. Asserts that water resources and economic development policy in the region has changed little from the time of British colonialism through the post-independence era of the late twentieth century. Topics covered include water utilization practices, development policies of different political administrations, and the role of nongovernmental organizations in influencing economic development.

Ilerbaig, Juan Francisco. "Pride in Place: Fieldwork, Geography, and American Field Zoology, 1850–1920." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2002. 352 pp. Studies the early development of this scientific field, focusing on its close ties to the field of natural history.

Jarvis, Kimberly Ann. "Nature and Identity in the Creation of Franconia Notch: Conservation, Tourism, and Women's Clubs." Ph.D. dissertation, University of New Hampshire, 2002. 339 pp. Studies the influence of nature tourism on the development of a conservation coalition between the state government of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Federation of Women's Clubs, and the Society for the Protection of New Hamshire Forests during the 1920s. The coalition worked to establish a state park in which the unique landscape of the White Mountains, and Franconia Notch in particular, would be preserved. Also examines notions of regional identity and a sense of place associated with this conservation movement.

Julin, Suzanne Barta. "Public Enterprise: Politics, Policy, and Tourism Development in the Black Hills through 1941." Ph.D. dissertation, Washington State University, 2001. 285 pp. Studies the onset of nature tourism and a thriving tourist industry in the Black Hills (South Dakota, Wyoming) during the final decade of the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century. Topics discussed include automobiles, the New Deal, and the Mount Rushmore Monument.

Norwood, Lisa Barron West. "Grounds for the New Nation: Constructing Sense of Place in American Writings from 1780–1860." Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 2002. 207 pp. Examines perceptions of material cultural artifacts, especially pre-Columbian earthworks in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys, in American literature from this period. Studies works in which the authors define such landscape features as representations of a sense of place.

Reeve, W. Paul. "Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes: Making Space on the Nineteenth-Century Western Frontier." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Utah, 2002. 306 pp. Examines the land use practices of these three cultural groups, and studies the differing concepts of a "sense of place" that they associated with the frontier in Utah and Arizona.

Rieger, Christopher Branimir. "Clear-cutting Eden: Representations of Nature in Southern Fiction, 1930–1950." Ph.D. dissertation, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2002. 269 pp. Examines the ways in which contemporaneous gender, class, and race relations influenced representations of nature in the writings of southern American authors Erskine Caldwell (b. 1903), Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953), Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960), and William Faulkner (1897–1962).

Sensenig, Thomas S. "Development, Fire History and Current and Past Growth, of Old-Growth and Young-Growth Forest Stands in the Cascade, Siskiyou and Mid-Coast Mountains of Southwestern Oregon." Ph.D. dissertation, Oregon State University, 2003. 210 pp. Studies fire occurrences and their resulting impacts on tree growth in these forested areas, looking at the time period from 1700 through the twentieth century.

Smith, Hayden Ros. "Watersheds of Control: An Environmental History of the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1760–1860." Master's thesis (History), University of Charleston and The Citadel, 2002. 105 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography. Examines the ways in which the growth of rice cultivation in South Carolina shaped the ecology of the state. Includes discussion of irrigation agriculture, slave labor, and climate factors that influenced the profitability of the industry.

Wehr, Kevin C. "DamNation: The State of Nature and the Nature of the State in the American West." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2002. 376 pp. Focuses on environmental sociology and environmental politics in order to analyze dam construction in the American West between the 1920s and 1960s.

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