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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Allan, Marie. "A 2000-Year Record of Vegetation and Climate Change in the Jarbidge Mountains of Northeastern Nevada." Master's thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, 2003. 65 pp. The author argues that paleoecological evidence from the Mission Cross Bog in this region indicates that environmental changes over the past 2000 years were primarily caused by human actions, particularly mining.

Bekele, Melaku. "Forest Property Rights, the Role of the State, and Institutional Exigency: The Ethiopian Experience." Ph.D. dissertation, Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet [Sweden], 2003. 227 pp. Historical analysis of changes in forest property regimes and their impact on forests in this African nation, primarily from the 1930s to the present. Discusses such topics as deforestation, forest ownership, forest utilization, forest policy, and government regulation.

Bentley-Kemp, Lynne Austin. "Recovering Eden: The Photographer in the Garden." Ph.D. dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2003. 119 pp. Pictorial visions of Eden and paradise expressed in the landscape photographs of Carleton Watkins (1829–1916), Timothy O'Sullivan (1840–1882), Ansel Adams (1902–1984), Laura Gilpin (1891–1979), Linda Connor, and Marilyn Bridges.

Bunke, Bruce G. "All States Were Not Created Equal: Control of the Public Lands in the Early American Republic and the Rise of Western Sectionalism." Ph.D. dissertation, Brandeis University, 2004. 181 pp. Examines United States public land policies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that managed the disposition of public domain lands in new western states and territories in a far different fashion than in the original thirteen colonies. Also studies the far-reaching impacts of such policies on regional American land politics of the late twentieth century.

Campbell, Robert Bruce. "Inside Passage: Alaskan Travel, American Culture, and the Nature of Empire, 1867–1898." Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 2003. 435 pp. Asserts that travel writings by white elites exploring Alaska during the late nineteenth century influenced American attitudes toward the indigenous peoples and natural resources of Alaska and fostered American imperialist goals for the region.

Casana, Jesse John. "From Alalakh to Antioch: Settlement, Land Use, and Environmental Change in the Amuq Valley of Southern Turkey." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 2003. 574 pp. Studies the relationship between land settlement patterns, agricultural land use, land tenure systems, soil erosion, flooding, and environmental change in southern Turkey during prehistoric and ancient times.

Cornelius, Jonathan Philip. "The Effect of Forest Fragmentation on Genetic Diversity, Mating Systems and Effective Population Sizes of Forest Trees in Guanacaste, Costa Rica." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Alberta, 2003. 272 pp. Includes discussion of the deforestation history of the region and the resulting genetic implications for tropical forest cover.

Fagan, William Francis. "From Lime Kilns to Art Galleries: A Historical Anthropogeography of the Maine Coast City of Rockland." Ph.D. dissertation, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2003. 368 pp. Economic history of Rockland, Maine, focusing on the industries that have dominated the regional economy from the eighteenth century to the present: the lime production industry; the wood and steel shipbuilding industries; the fishing and fish-processing industries; and the tourist industry.

Hancock, Quentin Webster. "From Conviction to Recreation: Earth First!, Friends of the Los Angeles River and the Culture of American Environmentalism." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Davis, 2003. 330 pp. Compares and contrasts the philosophical origins, values, methodology, and goals behind the political activism of these two environmental groups in the United States; early twentieth century to the present.

Harrison, Blake Andrew. "Tourism and the Reworking of Rural Vermont, 1880s–1970s." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003. 441 pp. Discusses the relationships between tourism, leisure, rural land use, and rural identity in Vermont.

Ivey, Linda L. "Poetic Industrialism: Ethnicity, Environment and Commercial Horticulture in California's Pajaro Valley from the Progressive Era through the Great Depression." Ph.D. dissertation (History), Georgetown University, 2003. v + 353 leaves. Discusses environmental conditions, labor strikes, and ethnic relations in the horticultural agriculture industry operating in the Pajaro River Valley of California in the early twentieth century.

Kovalev, Roman Konstantinovich. "The Infrastructure of the Novgorodian Fur Trade in the Pre-Mongol Era." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Alberta, 2003. 272 pp. Hunting and trapping in Novgorod, Russia, from ca. 900 to ca. 1240.

Lewis, Corey Lee. "Reading the Trail: Exploring the Literature and Natural History of the California Crest." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nevada, Reno, 2003. 328 pp. Ecocritical examination of environmental literature written by three California authors: writer Mary Austin (1868–1934), environmentalist John Muir (1838–1914), and poet Gary Snyder (1930- ). Lewis asserts that the authors' nature writings would be quite useful tools in contemporary environmental education programs.

Mickulas, Peter Philip. "Giving, Getting, and Growing: Philanthropy, Science, and the New York Botanical Garden, 1888–1929." Ph.D. dissertation, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick, 2003. 487 pp. On the early history of botanical research and botanical collecting at the New York Botanical Garden in New York City, New York. Botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859–1934) founded the institution, which focused on cataloging the botany of flora in the Western Hemisphere.

Morrison, Dawn Anne. "Looking Down on Chicago: The Elevated Perspective in the Visual Representation of Landscape and Place." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003. 300 pp. Examines the degree to which the use of an elevated perspective in visual representations of the city of Chicago, Illinois, has historically impacted attitudes toward the urban landscape and the development of a sense of place associated with the city.

Peters, Vernon Scott. "Keystone Processes Affect Succession in Boreal Mixedwoods: The Relationship Between Masting in White Spruce and Fire History." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Alberta, 2003. 203 pp. Analyzes the interactive roles of wildfire and white spruce seed crop production (masting) in promoting the regeneration of white spruce in mixed boreal forests. Focuses primarily on succession data gathered from fires that occurred in the 1940s.

Prosperetti, Leopoldine van Hogendorp. "Jan Brueghel and the Landscape of Devotion: Spiritual Reform and Landscape Subjects in Antwerp Painting Between 1595 and 1625." Ph.D. dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 2004. 558 pp. Discusses the religious themes evident in the landscape paintings of Flemish artist Jan Brueghel (1568–1625).

Rubin, Matthew Jasper. "A Negotiated Landscape: Planning, Regulation, and the Transformation of San Francisco's Waterfront, 1950 to the Present." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland College Park, 2003. 404 pp. On the evolution of land use planning pertaining to the waterfront landscape of San Francisco, California.

Thompson, Don Harris. "History and Evaluation of the McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program." Ph.D. dissertation, Mississippi State University, 2003. 233 pp. Uses findings from a 2002 survey to assess the effectiveness of this 1962 law in meeting its goals to increase research into the production, protection, and utilization of forests in the United States.

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