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Biblioscope

An Archival Guide & Bibliography

Theses and Dissertations

Afkhami, Amir Arsalan. "Iran in the Age of Epidemics. Nationalism and the Struggle for Public Health: 1889–1926." Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 2003. 508 pp. The influence of cholera, influenza, and plague on Iranian economy and society during this period, and the rise of a national public health policy free of foreign influence to ensure better sanitation and fight epidemic diseases.

Alexander, Keith Duane. "From Red to Green in the Island City: The Alternative Liste West Berlin and the Evolution of the West German Left, 1945–1990." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2003. 474 pp. On the radical politics of the Alternative Ballot for Democracy and Environmental Protection organization in West Germany and its members' decreasing emphasis on radical environmentalism as the country moved toward a unified Germany late in the twentieth century.

Benac, David Thomas. "This Land is all Terrible Rough: A History of Access to Forest Resources in Carter County, Missouri." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Missouri—Columbia, 2003. 234 pp. Examines the resistance of residents living in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri to efforts of the timber industry and governmental agencies to establish a lumber market in the region that would limit Ozarkers' traditional access to forest resources; 1880s–1950.

Bouchard, Daniel. "Pollution, science et pouvoir: L'histoire du désastre écologique à Sudbury (1883–1945): Derrière l'écran de fumée." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Ottawa [Canada], 2003. 342 pp. "Pollution, Science and Power: The History of Ecological Disaster in Sudbury (1883–1945): Behind the Smokescreen." The author asserts that atmospheric pollution and environmental degradation arose in this region of Ontario, Canada, from intensive deforestation, agricultural, and nickel mining activities from the advent of the railroad through the end of World War II. Text in French.

Decker, Juilee. "The Possibilities of Print: John Constable, 'English Landscape', and the Chiaroscuro of Nature." Ph.D. dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2003. 317 pp. Studies the work of English landscape artist John Constable (1776–1837) in producing late in his career a collection of landscape mezzotints engraved by David Lucas (1802–1881) titled English Landscape.

Furlong, Jennifer Schell. "Le coeur capable et l'ame saine: Landscape, Virtue and the Origins of Sensibility." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2003. 212 pp. Representations of nature and landscape in the writings of French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) and novelists Marie Catherine le Jumelle de Barneville (Baronne d'Aulnoy, 1650?–1705), Charlotte Rose de Caumont de La Force (d. 1724), and Madame de Grafigny (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt, 1695–1758).

Horton, Tonia Woods. "Indian Lands, American Landscapes: Toward a Genealogy of Place in National Parks." Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona State University, 2003. 300 pp. Interdisciplinary study of interpretations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century landscape history and Native American history in the cultural resources management policies implemented at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, and Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana. Topics discussed include national identity, sense of place, public history, landscape architecture, anthropology, ethnohistory, cultural geography, environmental history, and Native American history.

Lahlum, Lori Ann. "'There are no trees here': Norwegian Women Encounter the Northern Prairies and Plains." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Idaho, 2003. 272 pp. Examines the degree to which the unique landscape and environmental conditions of the northern Great Plains and prairies of the United States impacted the traditional agricultural land use practices of Norwegian women immigrants from the 1850s to the 1930s.

Lansing, Michael Jay. "The Significance of Nonhumans in United States Western History." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2003. 309 pp. Studies ranching by Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) in the Dakota Territory in the mid-1880s; interracial marriage in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the late 1890s; and the United States Forest Service's efforts to fight forest fires in Idaho in 1919 as examples of the significant role played by land settlement, race relations, and natural resource extraction in shaping the history of the western United States.

Long, Colin James. "Holocene Fire and Vegetation History of the Oregon Coast Range, United States." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oregon, 2003. 270 pp. Examines the influence of climatic conditions and forest fires on forest vegetation in the Pacific Northwest of the United States during this prehistoric epoch.

Phillips, Sarah T. "Acres Fit and Unfit: Conservation and Rural Rehabilitation in the New Deal Era." Ph.D. dissertation, Boston University, 2004. 434 pp. On the gradual shift in United States government policy away from providing direct assistance to the rural poor toward promoting large federally-funded resource development projects to help with controlling floods, developing hydroelectricity, and improving soil and forest conditions. Argues that this domestic policy later influenced American foreign assistance policy.

Reynolds, Robert Webster, Jr. "American Rustic: The Landscape of Recreation." Ph.D. dissertation, Lehigh University, 2003. 616 pp. On the development of a trend to experience nature through camping, hunting, and fishing in locations not far from urban centers in the United States during the late nineteenth century.

Robinson, Guy Schuyler. "Landscape Paleoecology and Late Quaternary Extinctions in the Hudson Valley." Ph.D. dissertation, Fordham University, 2003. 154 pp. Uses palynological and paleoecological methods to study the impact of human actions, climate change, and landscape change on the extinction of faunal species in New York's Hudson Valley during the prehistoric Quaternary period.

Sloan, Stephen Mayes. "Negotiating a Sense of Place in the Salt River Valley: Urbanites and the Desert." Ph.D. dissertation, Arizona State University, 2003. 276 pp. Examines European American settlers' attitudes toward and perceptions of the environmental conditions of this Arizona region, and compares that cultural understanding with that of Native Americans. Focuses on the ways in which culture, religion, and human interaction with the environment have shaped a sense of place and regional identity for both groups in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Strzeszewski, Mary Ruth. "The Artist-Intellectual and Literary Form in the Landscape Writings of Miguel de Unamuno and J. Martinez Ruiz." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 2003. 208 pp. Intellectualism in the landscape writings of Spanish authors Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) and José Martínez Ruiz (1873–1967), who was known primarily by the pseudonym Azorín.

Zontek, Ken. "Sacred Symbiosis: The Native American Effort to Restore the Buffalo Nation." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Idaho, 2003. 372 pp. On the central role played by bison in indigenous American and Canadian cultures, and efforts of individual Indians and the Intertribal Bison Cooperative to breed buffalo in captivity and restore the species to lands bison traditionally roamed in Canada and the United States; late nineteenth century through 2000.

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