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Biblioscope

An Archival Guide & Bibliography

Theses and Dissertations

Andrews, Thomas George. "The Road to Ludlow: Work, Environment, and Industrialization, 1870–1915." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003. 646 leaves. On the environmental impacts of industrialization and changing relationships between workers, capitalists, and the environment in Colorado during this era. Focuses on labor relations in the coal mining industry, with particular attention to the coal miners' strike of 1913–1914 and the massacre of striking miners in Ludlow, Colorado, in 1914.

Angiel, Randal. "Geography, Radioactive Contamination and Public Health: The Albany-Troy Rainout After 50 Years." Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Albany, 2003. 154 leaves. Studies the public health impacts of radioactive fallout from a powerful nuclear weapon detonated in 1953 at the Nevada Test Site. The author asserts that radioactive particles from the bomb traveled with the jet stream eastward across the United States, mixed with clouds above Albany and Troy, New York, and fell to earth as a radioactive rainfall that contaminated much of the state and possibly surrounding areas.

Bain, Daniel Joseph. "400 Years of Land Use Impacts on Landscape Structure and Riparian Sediment Dynamics: Investigations Using Chromite Mining Waste and Property Mosaics." Ph.D. dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 2003. 131 pp. Uses chromite mining waste as an indicator of sedimentation change in this study of the impact of human land settlement patterns on landscape structure and property divisions in the Gwynns Falls Watershed of Maryland from the mid-seventeenth century through the twentieth century.

Bergeron, Karine. "Naturalistes, Chasseurs Sportifs et Ecologistes: Trois Wildlife Painters Nord-Americains." Master's thesis, Universite Laval [Canada], 2003. 203 pp. Studies differing representations of wildlife and ecological philosophy in the artwork of North American artists John James Audubon (1780–1851), Carl Rungius (1869–1959), and Robert Bateman (1930- ). Text in French.

Bui, Lan Thi Phuong. "When the Forest Became the Enemy and the Legacy of American Herbicidal Warfare in Vietnam." Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 2003. 296 leaves. On the environmental implications of the use of herbicides such as Agent Orange to defoliate forests in Vietnam by American armed forces during the Vietnam War in the 1960s. Focuses especially on the Kennedy administration.

Carlson, Charles Thomas. "Land Use History and Vegetation Change on the Point Reyes Peninsula, California." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Davis, 2003. 138 leaves. By Coast Miwok Indians, Spanish missionaries, Mexican rancheros and dairy farmers, and European and American settlers; eighteenth through twentieth centuries.

Chaturawong, Chotima. "The Architecture of Burmese Buddhist Monasteries in Upper Burma and Northern Thailand: The Biography of Trees." Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, 2003. 347 pp. Religious, political, and economic aspects of bodhi and teak tree utilization in the construction of monasteries in this region of Southeast Asia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Jones, Jeannette Eileen. "'In brightest Africa': Naturalists' Images of Africa and the American Museum of Natural History, 1910–1936." Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2003. 358 pp. Studies representations of the African landscape and African fauna in the Akeley Memorial African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History that were antithetical to assumptions about the impenetrable wilderness of "Darkest Africa" that previously had dominated American popular culture. Argues that the exhibit's creator, Carl Akeley, was unable to present the indigenous people of Africa in such a favorable light due to uneasy race relations in the United States.

Lai, Elaine Lareina. "Deforestation in the Southern Yucatán Region, Mexico (1978–2000), Change and Implications." Master's thesis, Duke University, 2004. iv + 46 leaves. Land cover changes produced primarily by new agricultural activity in this formerly heavily forested region.

MacMahon, Sandra Varney. "Tuberculosis, the Navajos, and Western Healthcare Providers, 1920–1960." Ph.D. dissertation, University of New Mexico, 2003. 357 leaves. On the prevalence and progression of this disease among Navajo Indian populations in Arizona and New Mexico during the early to mid-twentieth century. Discusses general health and hygiene practices in traditional Navajo culture, the health impacts of federally-mandated livestock grazing reduction on the tribe's subsistence economy, and the quality of treatment provided by healthcare operators in the region.

McPherson, Matthew M. "Peasants Under Siege: Political Economy of Conservation and State Control in the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Florida, 2003. 319 pp. Examines the impact of changes in government regulations, economic development strategies, and conservation policies on peasants' access to the natural resources they traditionally used to maintain their subsistence lifestyles. Focuses on the period during and immediately following the dictatorship of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo (1891–1961) in the mid-twentieth century.

Pebworth, Michael Jonathan. "Evergreen Struggle: Federal Wilderness Preservation, Populism and Liberalism in Washington State, 1935–1984." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oregon, 2003. 468 pp. Asserts that the timber industry was an early ally of the wilderness preservation movement in Washington but that structural changes in the industry's economy later in the century led to a populist backlash against the liberal ideology promoted by such environmental groups as the Washington Wilderness Coalition, the North Cascades Conservation Council, and the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Sierra Club.

Quinn, Joseph H. "William S. Whiting Logging Railroads: An Historical Geography 1900–1924." Master's thesis (Geography and Planning), Appalachian State University, 2003. ix + 110 leaves. Discusses William S. Whiting's career as a logger in Watauga County, North Carolina; work of the Boone Fork Lumber Company in western North Carolina; and logging railroads that operated in the region during the early twentieth century.

Sequchi, Rui. "Investigating Changing Relationships Between Land Cover and Landform Between 1880 and 1990 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan." Master's thesis, University of Guelph [Canada], 2003. 56 pp. Uses GIS analysis to study changes in land use and the impacts of those changes on forest vegetation cover.

Smith, Daniel Somers. "The Discipline of Nature: A History of Environmental Discourse in the Northern Forest of New England and New York." Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 2003. 526 pp. Discusses political aspects of forest conservation, environmentalism, nature tourism, and economic development in the forested northeastern United States; nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Surette, Susan. "Landscape Imagery in Canadian Ceramic Vessels." Master's thesis, Concordia University [Canada], 2003. 137 pp. Ideas about multiculturalism, gender equity, national identity, and environmentalism reflected in the landscape imagery used to decorate pottery in Canada during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Wilshusen, Peter Robert. "Negotiating Devolution: Community Conflict, Structural Power, and Local Forest Management in Quintana Roo, Mexico." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 2003. 527 pp. Studies the negligible impacts of changes in state agrarian policies and programs on traditional common property management and forest utilization in this Mexican state during the late twentieth century.

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