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Biblioscope

An Archival Guide & Bibliography

Theses and Dissertations

Casteel, Sarah Phillips. "New World Pastoral: Landscape and Emplacement in Contemporary Writing of the Americas." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 2003. 253 pp. Studies the ways in which twentieth-century nature writers from Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States incorporate or dismiss long-standing European colonial ideas about regional identity, sense of place, pastoralism, and nature in their writings.

Donahue, Maryann Rosella. "Modes of Motion: Travel in the Nonfiction Narratives of Twentieth-Century American Women Writers." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Tulsa, 2003. 232 pp. Examines themes about the development of a sense of identity, of "otherness," in reaction to foreign landscapes in works of travel writing by American authors Edith Wharton (1862–1937), Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882–1961), Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980), and Mary McCarthy (1912–1989). Contrasts such thematic representations with themes about the development of a sense of marginalization and alienation in reaction to environments, places, and situations in the United States exhibited in writings by contemporary American women authors Joan Didion (1934- ), Alice Walker (1944- ), Dorothy Allison (1949- ), and Mary Gordon.

Gianquitto, Tina Lee. "Noble Designs of Nature and Nation: God, Science, and Sentiment in Women's Representations of the American Landscape." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 2002. 199 pp. Studies intersections of religious, scientific, and philosophical thought governing representations of nature in botanical manuals, flower language books, travel narratives, and seasonal journals produced by nineteenth-century American women authors Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (1793–1884), Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813–1894), and Mary Treat (1830–1923).

Graybill, Andrew R. "Instruments of Incorporation: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875–1910." Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 2003. 302 pp. Compares the rural policing methods and policies of Canada's North West Mounted Police and the Texas Rangers during a period of increased settlement and economic development on the western frontiers of each nation. Includes discussion of the police forces' actions in settling coal mining disputes, in segregating Native peoples and denying them access to natural resources, and in promoting the rise of enterprises, such as ranching syndicates, that severely limited the economic opportunities of small landholders.

Hyman, Diana Rachel. "Defenses of Solitude: Justice Douglas, the Right to Privacy, and the Preservation of the American Wilderness." Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 2003. 225 pp. Examines the environmental philosophy and judgments of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas (1898–1980) as well as his association of wilderness and a right to privacy with what he believed to be the national American identity.

Kolman, Stephen Michael. "We'll Take Manhattan: The Appropriation of Immigrant Space and the Transformation of Urban Geography in New York City, 1925–1975." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002. 244 pp. On the dissolution of a sense-of-place and ethnic identity associated with immigrant communities in New York City as a result of city planning and urban development policies that promoted architectural homogenization through urban renewal and new construction. Studies specifically changes in the urban geography of four traditional ethnic communities: the Eastern European Lower East Side, the Italian Southwest Village, the Irish Hell's Kitchen, and the Central European Yorkville.

Kratochvil, Daniel James. "Contested Federalism: The Intergovernmental Struggle for Regulatory Control of the Petroleum Marketplace in the United States and Canada, 1945–1981." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 2003. 460 pp. Compares and contrasts Canada's decentralized government regulation of the oil industry with the more centralized regulatory structure that developed in the United States during the mid- to late twentieth century.

Pappas, Jeffrey Peter. "Forest Scholars: The Early History of Nature Guiding at Yosemite National Park, 1913–1925." Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona State University, 2003. 319 pp. On the role of U.S. National Park Service Director Stephen T. Mather (1867–1930) and zoologist and ranger-naturalist Dr. Harold C. Bryant (1886–1968) in the creation of the Yosemite Nature Guide Service, the first nature guide program ever sanctioned by the United States National Park Service, at Yosemite National Park in California. The author asserts that the creation of the Yosemite Nature Guide Service was indicative of the increasing professionalization of public service officials.

Rakes, Paul Hellmut. "Acceptable Casualites: Power, Culture, and History in the West Virginia Coalfields, 1900–1945." Ph.D. dissertation, West Virginia University, 2002. 240 pp. Examines day-to-day health and safety hazards, as well as serious mining disasters, experienced by miners working in the coal mining industry of West Virginia in the early twentieth century. Discusses mining technology, labor relations, and efforts of mine owners and their political allies to combat regulatory reform of the industry.

Rennie, Richard Charles. "'And There's Nothing Goes Wrong': Industry, Labour, and Health and Safety at the Fluorspar Mines, St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, 1933–1978." Ph.D. dissertation, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2002. xiii + 489 leaves. Illustrations, maps. Studies health, hygiene, and safety in the coastal fluorspar mining community of St. Lawrence.

Vanderspek, Dennis Randolph John. "From Edwards to Dillard: Puritan Mysticism and the Tropology of American Nature Writing." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Western Ontario, 2002. 302 pp. Compares religious aspects of nature and interpretations of self and place in the writings of colonial American preacher and evangelical theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), American transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) and Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), and American nature writer Annie Dillard (b. 1945).

Wilson, Robert Michael. "Seeking Refuge: Making Space for Migratory Waterfowl and Wetlands Along the Pacific Flyway." Ph.D. dissertation (Geography), University of British Columbia, 2003. x + 307 pp. Studies the impact of human land use on wetlands since the mid-nineteenth century and subsequent efforts of the American and Canadian governments to manage wildlife refuges and sustain migratory waterfowl.

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