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Biblioscope

An Archival Guide & Bibliography

Theses and Dissertations

Caffrey, Patrick Joseph. "The Forests of Northeast China, 1600–1953: Environment, Politics, and Society." Ph.D. dissertation, Georgetown University, 2002. 468 pp. On the evolution of forest management policy in Manchuria, China. Topics covered include: afforestation, deforestation, forest conservation, forest politics, and sustainability.

Callahan, Richard Joseph, Jr. "Working with Religion: Industrialization and Resistance in the Eastern Kentucky Coal Fields, 1910–1932." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002. 262 pp. Examines the role of religion in shaping the attitudes of coal miners and their families toward work and social activities during an era of increasing industrialization.

Dehler, Gregory John. "An American Crusader: William Temple Hornaday and Wildlife Protection in America, 1840–1940." Ph.D. dissertation, Lehigh University, 2001. 423 pp. Detailed biography of American wildlife conservationist and director of the New York Zoological Park, William Temple Hornaday (1854–1937). The author argues that Hornaday's lobbying efforts to secure state and federal laws aimed at the protection of wildlife, shaped the wildlife conservation movement following the Second World War.

Dennis, Samuel Frederick, Jr. "Seeing the Lowcountry Landscape: 'Race,' Gender, and Nature in Lowcountry South Carolina and Georgia, 1750–2000." Ph.D. dissertation (Geography), Pennsylvania State University, 2000. xii + 289 pp. Argues that when the lumber industry replaced the rice planter economy of South Carolina and Georgia in the early twentieth century, lumbermen adopted planters' paternalistic ideas about race, gender, and ritual practices, such as hunting, traditionally associated with the lowcountry landscape during the era of slavery.

Honker, Andrew M. "A River Sometimes Runs Through It: A History of Salt River Flooding and Phoenix." Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona State University, 2002. 294 pp. Overview of the flooding of Phoenix, Arizona, by the Salt River, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Key, Joseph Patrick. "'Masters of this Country': The Quapaws and Environmental Change in Arkansas, 1673–1833." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arkansas, 2001. 206 pp. Documents the history of the Quapaw Indians during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Examines impact the Quapaw had on local ecosystem in Arkansas and also looks at how environment shaped beliefs and social relationships of the Native American tribe during the period.

Kupferberg, Eric D. "The Expertise of Germs: Practice, Language and Authority in American Bacteriology, 1899–1924." Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. 784 pp. Traces the development of American bacteriology during the first quarter of the twentieth century and documents the efforts of scientific organizations, such as the Society of American Bacteriologists, to set guidelines to determine the focus of the discipline.

Ledford, Katherine Elizabeth. "Progressive Desires: Travel Writing, National Identity, and the Mountain South in the Nineteenth-Century United States." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, 2002. 237 pp. Examination of how travel narratives about the Southern Appalachian region during the nineteenth century reveal not only themes of national identity, but also reflect broad social, economic, and cultural ideals of the region.

Mackowski, Maura Phillips. "Human Factors: Aerospace Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight in the United States." Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona State University, 2002. 447 pp. Analysis of the growth of aviation medicine between 1934 and 1959, with particular focus on the cooperation between American and German scientists such as, Harry Armstrong (1899–1983) and Hubertus Strughold (1898– ). Also includes history of working relationship between U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and U.S. Air Force during the early years of the manned space program.

Marsh, Kevin Reppert. "Drawing in the Woods: Debating Wilderness Boundaries on National Forest Lands in the Cascade Mountains, 1950–1984." Ph.D. dissertation, Washington State University, 2002. 307 pp. Studies the politics surrounding wilderness area designation on national forests in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington.

Metheny, Karen Bescherer. "The Landscape of Industry and the Negotiation of Place: An Archaeological Study of Worker Agency in a Pennsylvania Coal Company Town, 1891–1947." Ph.D. dissertation, Boston University, 2002. 860 pp. Uses oral, written, and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the history of Helvetia (1891–1947), an abandoned coal mining town in western Pennsylvania. Author explores relationship and discourse between miners and the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company.

Morrill, Susanna. "White Roses on the Floor of Heaven: Nature and Flower Imagery in Latter-day Saint Women's Literature, 1880–1920." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 2002. 296 pp. Studies the association of a maternal relationship to nature with Mormon theological beliefs in the poetry and literary writings of women who practiced the Latter-day Saint religion in the United States.

Nelson, Megan Kate. "Peculiar Ecology: Swamps and Culture in the Southeastern Borderlands, 1732–1940." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, 2002. 414 pp. Argues that environmental conditions in the swamps of southern Georgia and northern Florida fostered a sense of regional identity that shaped the cultural history of the area.

Watt, Laura Alice. "Managing Cultural Landscapes: Reconciling Local Preservation and Institutional Ideology in the National Park Service." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2001. 246 pp. Based on a case study of the U.S. National Park Service's management of Point Reyes National Seashore since its designation in 1962, the author concludes that the agency's management philosophy favors natural landscapes over cultural resources. Watt asserts that the Park Service's tendency to re-shape environments is therefore often detrimental to the cultural landscapes under its management jurisdiction.

Yaryan, William Sheppard. "Saving the Redwoods: The Ideology and Political Economy of Nature Preservation." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2002. 345 pp. Examines the efforts of citizen activists to protect ancient redwood trees from harvesting in California from 1900 through the 1990s. Includes discussion of the environmental group known as the Sempervirens Club (Fund) and its influence on the creation of the Big Basin Redwoods State Park.

Zimring, Carl Abraham. "Recycling for Profit: The Evolution of the American Scrap Industry." Ph.D. dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002. 389 pp. On the development and evolution of the scrap metal recycling industry in the United States from 1800 to 1980. Focuses on the economic aspects of the industry and includes discussion of firms' responses to environmental concerns about hazardous waste in the late twentieth century.

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