subject:(environmental history)

1. Anderson, Erik D. Feral Bodies, Feral Nature: Wild Men in America.

Degree: PhD, History, 2010, Brown University

URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11061/

► This dissertation complicates the narrative of American environmental thought by revealing how many Americans held anxieties about the dynamic relationship between human nature, human identity… (more)

▼ This dissertation complicates the narrative of American environmental thought by revealing how many Americans held anxieties about the dynamic relationship between human nature, human identity and the environment. The most extreme manifestation of these fears were Wild Men: human beings who, as a result of their exposure to the transformative power of nature, became covered in hair, endowed with great physical prowess, and stripped of speech. Wild Men, and the discourse on human and wild nature they embodied, shaped and were shaped by discourses of race, gender and class. In communities across the nation, Americans inscribed this fantastic image upon actual human beings on the margins of American society such as Native Americans, escaped slaves, vagrants, and the mentally ill, seeing them not as humans but as Wild Men. The results were violent attempts at redeeming those seen as Wild People from the wilderness that had transformed them. This project begins by arguing that a Texas community attempted to capture the Wild People of the Navidad because they embodied its concerns regarding the vulnerability of civilization during the Texas Revolution. Next, it traces the genealogy of the Wild Man figure in Native American, African American and Europe cultures. The following chapter explores the exhibition and examination of a Wild Woman and Wild Man by medical authorities in Cincinnati and Louisville in 1856 and 1878. Chapter four uses theories of power and legal liminality to understand the care and cruelty that the Wild Man of the Chilhowee experienced in post-bellum Tennessee. In the fifth chapter, I explore the life of Joseph Israel/Lucy Ann Lobdell to understand how wild behavior became pathologized in the last decades of the century. The sixth chapter explains the rise of the Wild Man in American culture at large from the 1840s to the popularization of evolutionary theory following the Civil War. Finally, the seventh chapter illustrates how, by the early twentieth century, the Wild Man image had fractured in response to changes in medical, biological and juridical knowledge and practice, creating figures in American and Canadian culture as diverse as Tarzan and Sasquatch. Advisors/Committee Members: Jacoby, Karl (Director), Gorn, Elliott (Reader), Jacobs, Nancy (Reader).

Subjects/Keywords: environmental history

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Anderson, E. D. (2010). Feral Bodies, Feral Nature: Wild Men in America. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11061/

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Anderson, Erik D. “Feral Bodies, Feral Nature: Wild Men in America.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed December 06, 2019. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11061/.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Anderson, Erik D. “Feral Bodies, Feral Nature: Wild Men in America.” 2010. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Anderson ED. Feral Bodies, Feral Nature: Wild Men in America. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2010. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11061/.

Council of Science Editors:

Anderson ED. Feral Bodies, Feral Nature: Wild Men in America. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2010. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11061/

2. Brittman, Edward J. Deliberation and Implementation of the Breaux Act.

Degree: 2016, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10002404

► This thesis traces the coastal restoration movement in Louisiana from the early identification of coastal land loss by scientists to the introduction of proactive… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Environmental studies; History

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Brittman, E. J. (2016). Deliberation and Implementation of the Breaux Act. (Thesis). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10002404

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Brittman, Edward J. “Deliberation and Implementation of the Breaux Act.” 2016. Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10002404.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Brittman, Edward J. “Deliberation and Implementation of the Breaux Act.” 2016. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Brittman EJ. Deliberation and Implementation of the Breaux Act. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Louisiana at Lafayette; 2016. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10002404.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

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Brittman EJ. Deliberation and Implementation of the Breaux Act. [Thesis]. University of Louisiana at Lafayette; 2016. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10002404

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Université de Neuchâtel

3. Wunderlin, Tina. Diversity of endospore-forming bacteria in sediment as a proxy for environmental lake history.

Degree: 2013, Université de Neuchâtel

URL: http://doc.rero.ch/record/255693

► Les lacs une grande importance écologique et économique, mais ils sont aussi très vulnérables aux pressions anthropogéniques (pollution; surpêche), aux changements climatiques et à l'eutrophisation… (more)

▼ Les lacs une grande importance écologique et économique, mais ils sont aussi très vulnérables aux pressions anthropogéniques (pollution; surpêche), aux changements climatiques et à l'eutrophisation (hautes concentrations de nutriments). Pour une gestion environnementale et la mise en place de mesures de conservation, les dynamiques des écosystèmes lacustres doivent être connues et les conditions biologiques de référence doivent être établies afin de mesurer dans le futur la santé écologique des lacs. Les conditions biologiques de références, comme les connaissances de la biodiversité et les réponses des écosystèmes aux perturbations environnementales sont fournies par les sédiments, qui sont des archives idéales des conditions du passé. Cette thèse présente la recherche sur la détection et la diversité des bactéries sporulantes et leur usage comme indicateurs des conditions écologiques du lac Léman (France-Suisse) au cours des 100 dernières années. Les endospores sont des structures résistantes qui sont produites par un groupe de bactéries dans des conditions de stress. Les endospores dormantes sont déposées avec le sédiment et sont des capsules biologiques qui reflètent les conditions environnementales au moment de leur sédimentation. Les approches métagénomiques sont des études de séquençage du métagénome entier qui se trouve dans un échantillon environnemental. Une approche ciblée est réalisée uniquement sur une partie de la communauté (fraction ciblée). Ces approches métagénomiques ciblées augmentent la couverture de séquençage et également la résolution de détection de taxons. Elles résolvent donc les problèmes connus des approches métagénomiques globales. Deux méthodes de métagénomique ciblée ont été développées au cours de cette thèse pour étudier la diversité des bactéries sporulantes dans les sédiments. La première méthode est basée sur des amorces moléculaires dessinée pour amplifier un fragment du gène <i>spo0A</i>, gène spécifique aux bactéries sporulantes codant pour le facteur de transcription de la sporulation. De plus, une méthode optimisée d'extraction d'ADN pour les bactéries sporulantes a été développée. En appliquant ces méthodes, la diversité des cellules végétatives des bactéries sporulantes ainsi que les endospores dans le sédiment peut être étudiée. La deuxième méthode de métagénomique ciblée est une méthode de traitement avec chaleur et agents chimiques pour détruire les cellules végétatives, qui sont fragiles, comparé aux endospores qui résistent au traitement. Avec cette méthode, la diversité seule des endospores peut être évaluée. Le traitement pour détruire les cellules végétatives est efficace, 90% des séquences détectées sont classifiées comme bactéries sporulantes. Avec une approche globale, seulement 10% des séquences détectées sont classifiées comme bactéries sporulantes. De plus, la résolution a été augmentée, en détectant jusqu'à 10 fois plus de taxon. La meilleure résolution permet de détecter 34 genres de bactéries sporulantes non révélés avec l'approche… Advisors/Committee Members: Pilar (Dir.).

Subjects/Keywords: environmental lake history

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Wunderlin, T. (2013). Diversity of endospore-forming bacteria in sediment as a proxy for environmental lake history. (Thesis). Université de Neuchâtel. Retrieved from http://doc.rero.ch/record/255693

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Wunderlin, Tina. “Diversity of endospore-forming bacteria in sediment as a proxy for environmental lake history.” 2013. Thesis, Université de Neuchâtel. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://doc.rero.ch/record/255693.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Wunderlin, Tina. “Diversity of endospore-forming bacteria in sediment as a proxy for environmental lake history.” 2013. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Wunderlin T. Diversity of endospore-forming bacteria in sediment as a proxy for environmental lake history. [Internet] [Thesis]. Université de Neuchâtel; 2013. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://doc.rero.ch/record/255693.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Wunderlin T. Diversity of endospore-forming bacteria in sediment as a proxy for environmental lake history. [Thesis]. Université de Neuchâtel; 2013. Available from: http://doc.rero.ch/record/255693

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Wayne State University

4. Rector, Josiah John. Accumulating Risk: Environmental Justice And The History Of Capitalism In Detroit, 1880-2015.

Degree: PhD, History, 2017, Wayne State University

URL: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/1738

► This dissertation is an environmental history of Detroit, Michigan from the 19th century to the present. Recent scholarship on the history of capitalism has… (more)

▼ This dissertation is an environmental history of Detroit, Michigan from the 19th century to the present. Recent scholarship on the history of capitalism has largely ignored the problem of environmental inequality, and the negative externalities of economic growth. In contrast, studies of the environmental justice movement have richly documented race, class, and gender inequalities in environmental risk exposure. However, they have neglected the relationship between the development of the environmental justice movement and the restructuring of American capitalism since the 1970s, including deindustrialization and the shift to neoliberalism. Bringing these fields together, this dissertation connects Detroit’s long-term economic transformation to the accumulation of environmental health risks in urban neighborhoods. It argues that environmental conflicts in metropolitan Detroit have historically determined who would pay for the negative externalities of industrial and real estate development. Over the course of the 20th century, corporations, real estate developers, and affluent white residents increasingly shifted the environmental costs of regional growth onto working-class and low-income communities of color. Between the Civil War and World War II, Detroit’s industrialization generated massive air, water, and soil pollution. Because of housing and job segregation, African Americans disproportionately paid the costs of this pollution, in the form of lower property values and higher rates of disease. After World War II, the movement of capital out of Detroit enabled manufacturers to reduce regulatory compliance costs, while leaving a legacy of polluted brownfield sites that the city could not afford to clean up. While manufacturers disinvested from Detroit, they used the threat of job loss to divide workers and environmentalists. In response, United Auto Workers (UAW) leaders formed a coalition for “Environmental and Economic Justice and Jobs” with civil rights and environmental groups. In the 1980s, this coalition broke down in the context of ongoing deindustrialization, metropolitan racial segregation and inequality, and the neoliberal restructuring of the United States economy. In the 1990s and 2000s, the decline of industrial unions altered the political economy of environmental justice activism in Detroit. Increasingly, the movement divided into non-profits and organizations based in a shrinking public sector. The dependence of non-profits on private grant funding became problematic in the 2000s, as local foundations began to support a policy of urban triage, as expressed in the 2010 Detroit Works Project and the 2013 Detroit Future City plan. Meanwhile, as Detroit became one of the epicenters of the nation’s subprime mortgage foreclosure crisis, more and more Detroit residents became vulnerable to losing their homes, or their ability to pay water bills. Neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatization, and austerity exacerbated environmental health risks for low-income… Advisors/Committee Members: Josiah J. Rector.

Subjects/Keywords: African American History; Detroit; Michigan; Environmental History; Environmental Justice; Labor History; Urban History; Environmental Health and Protection; Environmental Law; History

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Rector, J. J. (2017). Accumulating Risk: Environmental Justice And The History Of Capitalism In Detroit, 1880-2015. (Doctoral Dissertation). Wayne State University. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/1738

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Rector, Josiah John. “Accumulating Risk: Environmental Justice And The History Of Capitalism In Detroit, 1880-2015.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Wayne State University. Accessed December 06, 2019. https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/1738.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Rector, Josiah John. “Accumulating Risk: Environmental Justice And The History Of Capitalism In Detroit, 1880-2015.” 2017. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Rector JJ. Accumulating Risk: Environmental Justice And The History Of Capitalism In Detroit, 1880-2015. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Wayne State University; 2017. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/1738.

Council of Science Editors:

Rector JJ. Accumulating Risk: Environmental Justice And The History Of Capitalism In Detroit, 1880-2015. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Wayne State University; 2017. Available from: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/1738

Harvard University

5. Arch, Jakobina Kirsten. Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan, 1600-1900.

Degree: PhD, History and East Asian Languages, 2014, Harvard University

URL: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274496

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Whales are an enigma. It is difficult to pin them down because they straddle categories. Whales were difficult not just because of their extraordinary size,… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Asian history; environmental history; Japan; marine environmental history; whales; whaling

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Arch, J. K. (2014). Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan, 1600-1900. (Doctoral Dissertation). Harvard University. Retrieved from http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274496

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Arch, Jakobina Kirsten. “Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan, 1600-1900.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Harvard University. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274496.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Arch, Jakobina Kirsten. “Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan, 1600-1900.” 2014. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Arch JK. Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan, 1600-1900. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Harvard University; 2014. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274496.

Council of Science Editors:

Arch JK. Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan, 1600-1900. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Harvard University; 2014. Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274496

6. Weeks, Michael A. Industrializing a landscape| Northern Colorado and the making of agriculture in the twentieth century.

Degree: 2016, University of Colorado at Boulder

URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10151114

► I examine the industrialization of agriculture in the irrigated region of Northern Colorado from 1870-1960. Initially, I analyze settlement and land use patterns in… (more)

▼ I examine the industrialization of agriculture in the irrigated region of Northern Colorado from 1870-1960. Initially, I analyze settlement and land use patterns in the last third of the nineteenth century, showing how settlers developed a sustainable form of mixed farming that incorporated animal husbandry, careful crop rotation, sophisticated irrigation and an orientation toward market farming. Next, I demonstrate how the beet sugar industry came to dominate agriculture in the region during the first half of the twentieth century, as farmers incorporated the new cash crop into their farming, while utilizing the byproducts of the beet sugar industry to feed their livestock. Becoming growers for Great Western Sugar initially held in place and augmented a mode of farming that was generally sustainable for the land and lucrative for farmers, while also transferring control over land use from farmers to a corporation. My work also shows how the beet sugar industry created a permanent underclass of laborers. Cheap foreign sugar and delayed mechanization alongside corporate and grower demands for comfortable profits motivated the importation of German-Russian, Hispano, and Mexican labor. I show how Great Western and its growers kept contracted laborers on society’s margins and how this impacted housing, social relationships, education, and welfare. While laborers during the 1920s and 1930s chose to work in the beet fields, they resisted their conditions through strikes, unions, and forming a proletarian culture. Their plight and activism attracted the attention of reformists who used labor conditions in the beet sugar industry to argue for agricultural labor reforms. My research explains the drive for higher crop yields in American agriculture during the twentieth century. I show that, while mechanization offers some answers, the adoption of chemicals and synthetic fertilizers were essential in expanding yields and displacing farm laborers. In addition, I argue that USDA scientists and agricultural colleges provided much of the labor and research necessary to expand productivity, suggesting that understanding the evolution of modern food systems requires close historical scrutiny of the relationship between industry and state-sponsored science.

Subjects/Keywords: Agriculture; Environmental studies; History

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Weeks, M. A. (2016). Industrializing a landscape| Northern Colorado and the making of agriculture in the twentieth century. (Thesis). University of Colorado at Boulder. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10151114

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Weeks, Michael A. “Industrializing a landscape| Northern Colorado and the making of agriculture in the twentieth century.” 2016. Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10151114.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Weeks, Michael A. “Industrializing a landscape| Northern Colorado and the making of agriculture in the twentieth century.” 2016. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Weeks MA. Industrializing a landscape| Northern Colorado and the making of agriculture in the twentieth century. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Colorado at Boulder; 2016. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10151114.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
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Council of Science Editors:

Weeks MA. Industrializing a landscape| Northern Colorado and the making of agriculture in the twentieth century. [Thesis]. University of Colorado at Boulder; 2016. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10151114

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California State University – Sacramento

7. Kane, Meghan Marie. Environmental history at the California State Archives: records of the State Board of Forestry.

Degree: MA, History (Public History, 2011, California State University – Sacramento

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/1110

► The records of the Board of Forestry arrived at the California State Archives through several different accessions and not all of the records had been… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Environmental history; Archives; Forestry

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Kane, M. M. (2011). Environmental history at the California State Archives: records of the State Board of Forestry. (Masters Thesis). California State University – Sacramento. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/1110

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Kane, Meghan Marie. “Environmental history at the California State Archives: records of the State Board of Forestry.” 2011. Masters Thesis, California State University – Sacramento. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/1110.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Kane, Meghan Marie. “Environmental history at the California State Archives: records of the State Board of Forestry.” 2011. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Kane MM. Environmental history at the California State Archives: records of the State Board of Forestry. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. California State University – Sacramento; 2011. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/1110.

Council of Science Editors:

Kane MM. Environmental history at the California State Archives: records of the State Board of Forestry. [Masters Thesis]. California State University – Sacramento; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/1110

Louisiana State University

8. Peterson, Stacy Nicole. Failed Agricultural Impoundments: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Community Structure and Social Resilience.

Degree: MS, Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, 2014, Louisiana State University

URL: etd-11172014-142533 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/4077

► The remnants of the wetland reclamation era of the early 1900s are visible in the leveed, drained, and failed impoundments across the United States, and… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: agricultural impoundment; environmental history

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Peterson, S. N. (2014). Failed Agricultural Impoundments: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Community Structure and Social Resilience. (Masters Thesis). Louisiana State University. Retrieved from etd-11172014-142533 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/4077

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Peterson, Stacy Nicole. “Failed Agricultural Impoundments: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Community Structure and Social Resilience.” 2014. Masters Thesis, Louisiana State University. Accessed December 06, 2019. etd-11172014-142533 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/4077.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Peterson, Stacy Nicole. “Failed Agricultural Impoundments: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Community Structure and Social Resilience.” 2014. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Peterson SN. Failed Agricultural Impoundments: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Community Structure and Social Resilience. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Louisiana State University; 2014. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: etd-11172014-142533 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/4077.

Council of Science Editors:

Peterson SN. Failed Agricultural Impoundments: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Community Structure and Social Resilience. [Masters Thesis]. Louisiana State University; 2014. Available from: etd-11172014-142533 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/4077

Harvard University

9. Luongo, Matthew T. Comparison and Calibration of Climate Proxy Data in Medieval Europe.

Degree: AB, 2017, Harvard University

URL: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:38811487

► Two major sources of information on paleoclimate are historical documentary and scientific paleo proxy data. Recently, interdisciplinary research groups have sought to mesh historical and… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Engineering, Environmental; History, Medieval; Geology

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Luongo, M. T. (2017). Comparison and Calibration of Climate Proxy Data in Medieval Europe. (Thesis). Harvard University. Retrieved from http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:38811487

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Luongo, Matthew T. “Comparison and Calibration of Climate Proxy Data in Medieval Europe.” 2017. Thesis, Harvard University. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:38811487.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Luongo, Matthew T. “Comparison and Calibration of Climate Proxy Data in Medieval Europe.” 2017. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Luongo MT. Comparison and Calibration of Climate Proxy Data in Medieval Europe. [Internet] [Thesis]. Harvard University; 2017. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:38811487.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
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Council of Science Editors:

Luongo MT. Comparison and Calibration of Climate Proxy Data in Medieval Europe. [Thesis]. Harvard University; 2017. Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:38811487

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

10. Patzke, Karin Lynn. Valuing Constituency| Property Assessments, Land Management and Environmental Stewardship in Central Texas.

Degree: 2017, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606146

► This dissertation examines the recent history of environmental conservation in Texas from three perspectives, and provides an analytic framework for evaluating how political actors… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Law; Environmental studies; History

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Patzke, K. L. (2017). Valuing Constituency| Property Assessments, Land Management and Environmental Stewardship in Central Texas. (Thesis). Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606146

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Patzke, Karin Lynn. “Valuing Constituency| Property Assessments, Land Management and Environmental Stewardship in Central Texas.” 2017. Thesis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606146.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Patzke, Karin Lynn. “Valuing Constituency| Property Assessments, Land Management and Environmental Stewardship in Central Texas.” 2017. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Patzke KL. Valuing Constituency| Property Assessments, Land Management and Environmental Stewardship in Central Texas. [Internet] [Thesis]. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; 2017. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606146.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Patzke KL. Valuing Constituency| Property Assessments, Land Management and Environmental Stewardship in Central Texas. [Thesis]. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; 2017. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606146

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

11. Winters, Terri S. Toward an environmental conservatism.

Degree: MA, 2011, University of New Hampshire

URL: https://scholars.unh.edu/thesis/154

► The Evangelical Climate Initiative (ECI) argues that climate change is real and human-induced and represents a moral challenge for Christians to which an urgent… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: History; United States; Environmental Philosophy

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Winters, T. S. (2011). Toward an environmental conservatism. (Thesis). University of New Hampshire. Retrieved from https://scholars.unh.edu/thesis/154

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Winters, Terri S. “Toward an environmental conservatism.” 2011. Thesis, University of New Hampshire. Accessed December 06, 2019. https://scholars.unh.edu/thesis/154.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Winters, Terri S. “Toward an environmental conservatism.” 2011. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Winters TS. Toward an environmental conservatism. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of New Hampshire; 2011. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: https://scholars.unh.edu/thesis/154.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Winters TS. Toward an environmental conservatism. [Thesis]. University of New Hampshire; 2011. Available from: https://scholars.unh.edu/thesis/154

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Waterloo

12. Chamilliard, Tyler. Arboriculture and the Environment in Manosque, 1341 - 1404.

Degree: 2010, University of Waterloo

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5433

► This thesis uses records of criminal inquisitions from 1341 to 1404 to take up the question of medieval environmental consciousness. These records were created in… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: environmental; history; medieval; Manosque

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Chamilliard, T. (2010). Arboriculture and the Environment in Manosque, 1341 - 1404. (Thesis). University of Waterloo. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5433

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Chamilliard, Tyler. “Arboriculture and the Environment in Manosque, 1341 - 1404.” 2010. Thesis, University of Waterloo. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5433.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Chamilliard, Tyler. “Arboriculture and the Environment in Manosque, 1341 - 1404.” 2010. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Chamilliard T. Arboriculture and the Environment in Manosque, 1341 - 1404. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2010. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5433.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Chamilliard T. Arboriculture and the Environment in Manosque, 1341 - 1404. [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5433

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

13. MacIntyre, Colin Allen. The Environmental Pre-History of Prince Edward Island 1769 – 1970: A Reconnaissance in Force.

Degree: MA, Faculty of Arts. Island Studies., 2011, University of Prince Edward Island

URL: https://islandscholar.ca/islandora/object/ir:21764/datastream/PDF/download/citation.pdf ;

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Academic analysis of the historical interaction between humans and the environment has been extremely limited on Prince Edward Island. The following thesis is one of… (more)

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Academic analysis of the historical interaction between humans and the environment has been extremely limited on Prince Edward Island. The following thesis is one of the first studies to utilize Island Studies research methodologies to examine Prince Edward Island as a case study in environmental history. Prince Edward Island's "islandness" plays a significant factor in this history because any environmental changes are amplified by the compression of the limited geographical area of the Island.

The main question revolves around how Islanders' attitudes have evolved toward the environment. Before a conscious environmental movement began in the 1970s, Islanders have had concerns over the environment. These early concerns over the environment generally revolved around conserving natural resources that had economic value as opposed to preserving the environment for the sake of nature. However, there were some surprising examples of individuals who were ahead of their time as far as understanding the importance of preserving the environment. Thus, if such awareness toward environmental issues did not emerge in an organized way until the 1970s, this thesis examines changing attitudes over time, to create a "pre-history" of environmental concerns.

The thesis is organized chronologically and thematically. The introduction describes the research method, environmental history historiography, the importance of conservation law in environmental history, Island Studies research methods, and the idea of garden and Eden mythologies effecting legislation on islands. Chapter One reviews the impact of the Aboriginal and French impact to the environment, because their limited footprint justifies why the study focuses on the British Colonial and post-Confederation periods. Chapter Two outlines the impact that the British settlement era had on the Island's environment. Chapter Three covers changing environmental attitudes from the post-Confederation period to the Second World War. The final chapter covers postwar environmental impacts until the watershed of the Comprehensive Development Plan in 1970.

The thesis examines the evolution of attitudes toward the environment on Prince Edward Island through one major research method: the provincial government's legislative records. The Journals of the Legislative Assembly provided the bulk of the research material because they contain records of the legislation and government reports. Researching environmental related legislation is often the most fundamental research method in environmental history because it can be used to illustrate when and why humans became concerned for regulating and protecting the environment.

This thesis adds to the historiography of Prince Edward Island by expanding environmental history scholarship. Aside from geographies, natural history articles, forestry research, and works by Alan MacEachern focusing on National Parks and the Institute of Man and Resources, environmental history has been limited on Prince Edward Island. However, Prince Edward Island…

Advisors/Committee Members: Edward MacDonald (Thesis advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: History, Canadian; Environmental Studies

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MacIntyre, C. A. (2011). The Environmental Pre-History of Prince Edward Island 1769 – 1970: A Reconnaissance in Force. (Masters Thesis). University of Prince Edward Island. Retrieved from https://islandscholar.ca/islandora/object/ir:21764/datastream/PDF/download/citation.pdf ;

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

MacIntyre, Colin Allen. “The Environmental Pre-History of Prince Edward Island 1769 – 1970: A Reconnaissance in Force.” 2011. Masters Thesis, University of Prince Edward Island. Accessed December 06, 2019. https://islandscholar.ca/islandora/object/ir:21764/datastream/PDF/download/citation.pdf ;.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

MacIntyre, Colin Allen. “The Environmental Pre-History of Prince Edward Island 1769 – 1970: A Reconnaissance in Force.” 2011. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

MacIntyre CA. The Environmental Pre-History of Prince Edward Island 1769 – 1970: A Reconnaissance in Force. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Prince Edward Island; 2011. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: https://islandscholar.ca/islandora/object/ir:21764/datastream/PDF/download/citation.pdf ;.

Council of Science Editors:

MacIntyre CA. The Environmental Pre-History of Prince Edward Island 1769 – 1970: A Reconnaissance in Force. [Masters Thesis]. University of Prince Edward Island; 2011. Available from: https://islandscholar.ca/islandora/object/ir:21764/datastream/PDF/download/citation.pdf ;

University of Texas – Austin

14. Baumgardner, Neel Gregory. Bordering North America : constructing wilderness along the periphery of Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

Degree: PhD, History, 2013, University of Texas – Austin

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/30459

► This dissertation considers the exchanges between national parks along the North American borderlands that defined the contours of development and wilderness and created a brand… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: National park; Environmental history

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Baumgardner, N. G. (2013). Bordering North America : constructing wilderness along the periphery of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Texas – Austin. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2152/30459

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Baumgardner, Neel Gregory. “Bordering North America : constructing wilderness along the periphery of Canada, Mexico, and the United States.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Texas – Austin. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/30459.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Baumgardner, Neel Gregory. “Bordering North America : constructing wilderness along the periphery of Canada, Mexico, and the United States.” 2013. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Baumgardner NG. Bordering North America : constructing wilderness along the periphery of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Texas – Austin; 2013. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/30459.

Council of Science Editors:

Baumgardner NG. Bordering North America : constructing wilderness along the periphery of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Texas – Austin; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/30459

UCLA

15. Rodriguez, Steven Martin. Local People, National Parks, and International Conservation Movements: Conflicts over Nature in Southeast Asia.

Degree: History, 2013, UCLA

URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4rd1h3tb

► In the 1980s and 1990s, Southeast Asia became a world center for the establishment of national parks designed to foster the new conservation objectives of… (more)

▼ In the 1980s and 1990s, Southeast Asia became a world center for the establishment of national parks designed to foster the new conservation objectives of "collaborative management" and "ecotourism" development. Yet, by the start of the twenty-first century, these national parks programs had become notorious for their failure to achieve their management goals. International conservation organizations continued to sponsor park programs that excluded villagers from accessing the resources of the parks; meanwhile, the destruction of the parks' flora and fauna increased due to extensive logging and other forms of large-scale exploitation. Through an examination of management plans, government documents, the writings of conservationists, and reports from local journals and newspapers, this dissertation will put the recent history of national park development in Southeast Asia into a longer-term historical context of international conservation, colonial initiatives, and nation-state building. This dissertation will present case studies of parks in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam in order to illustrate specific examples of the conflicts that were manifested in the process of the implementation of national parks in the region. Through an analysis of the findings of the case studies, the research will identify common defining conflicts facing national parks in contemporary Southeast Asia. Case studies from Indonesia and Vietnam reveal that the failure of these nations' parks to achieve their management objectives was not the result of international NGOs and the imposition of their exclusionary conservation projects, but a consequence of increasing political decentralization, and the ongoing struggles between regional and national leaders over the control of natural resources. The history of Malaysia's national park, however, reveals that through a process of debate and contestation, it was possible to design an enduring national park program that reconciled the interests of local, national, and international groups. Ultimately, this dissertation suggests that the conception of a "national park" as a fixed archetype to be applied globally has been deficient. A new conception of the "national park" as an adaptable model designed to address specific and unique cultural and social contexts is essential for the future success of national parks programs in Southeast Asia.

Subjects/Keywords: History; Environmental History; National Parks; Southeast Asia

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Rodriguez, S. M. (2013). Local People, National Parks, and International Conservation Movements: Conflicts over Nature in Southeast Asia. (Thesis). UCLA. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4rd1h3tb

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Rodriguez, Steven Martin. “Local People, National Parks, and International Conservation Movements: Conflicts over Nature in Southeast Asia.” 2013. Thesis, UCLA. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4rd1h3tb.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Rodriguez, Steven Martin. “Local People, National Parks, and International Conservation Movements: Conflicts over Nature in Southeast Asia.” 2013. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Rodriguez SM. Local People, National Parks, and International Conservation Movements: Conflicts over Nature in Southeast Asia. [Internet] [Thesis]. UCLA; 2013. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4rd1h3tb.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Rodriguez SM. Local People, National Parks, and International Conservation Movements: Conflicts over Nature in Southeast Asia. [Thesis]. UCLA; 2013. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4rd1h3tb

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University of Oregon

16. Leone, Steven. Grave Concerns: Decay, Death, and Nature in the Early Republic.

Degree: 2018, University of Oregon

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23829

► While multiple questions drive this project, one fundamental query lays at its center. How did American approaches to mortality, their own and others, during the… (more)

▼ While multiple questions drive this project, one fundamental query lays at its center. How did American approaches to mortality, their own and others, during the early national period (roughly 1770 to 1850) shape both their understanding of themselves and their environment? The answer to that question exposes a distinct set of values revolving around preparation for death, and acknowledgment and respect for their own (and others mortality), which Americans imbibed from various and disparate sources. More specifically, the first half of the project examines how the letters they wrote and read, the sermons they listened to, the mourning rituals they practiced, the burial grounds they utilized, and the novels and poetry they consumed all combined to create a shared knowledge base and approach to death during the early republic. Uniquely, these principles found strength through a conscious linking of mortality to the natural world. Americans understood their own death as part of a larger, both positive and negative, perfected natural system created and perpetuated by God. The American approach towards mortality, however, was not static and the nineteenth century bore witness to the emergence of a sentimentalized, sanitized, and less human inclusive vision of mortality during 1830s and beyond. Ironically, nature remained central to the way Americans experienced death, however, in a consciously aesthetic, romantic, controlled manner. It is written into the present where rolling and manicured lawns combine together with still ponds to create bucolic scenes of peaceful rest among scenes of beauty. The old, grim, but no less natural lessons of worms, dirt, decay, and dissolution no longer hold sway, ignoring the vital and humbling connection between human bodies and the natural world that was understood in the early republic. This shift (and the focus of the second half of the dissertation), was spurred on by numerous interrelated but distinct factors ranging from urban growth, disease, foreign immigration, and changing cultural sentiments. Americans during the 1830s, 40s, and 50s redefined their relationship to death and in doing so consciously turned away from a vibrant, dynamic, and humbling vision of mortality grounded in the natural world. Advisors/Committee Members: Dennis, Matthew (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: Death history; Early National Period; Environmental history

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Leone, S. (2018). Grave Concerns: Decay, Death, and Nature in the Early Republic. (Thesis). University of Oregon. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23829

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Leone, Steven. “Grave Concerns: Decay, Death, and Nature in the Early Republic.” 2018. Thesis, University of Oregon. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23829.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Leone, Steven. “Grave Concerns: Decay, Death, and Nature in the Early Republic.” 2018. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Leone S. Grave Concerns: Decay, Death, and Nature in the Early Republic. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Oregon; 2018. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23829.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Leone S. Grave Concerns: Decay, Death, and Nature in the Early Republic. [Thesis]. University of Oregon; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23829

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Arizona

17. Burtner, Marcus. Crafting and Consuming an American Sonoran Desert: Global Visions, Regional Nature and National Meaning .

Degree: 2012, University of Arizona

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/268613

► From the 1840s to 1950s, interpretations of nature played a central role in the defining and enculturating the Sonoran Desert into the American nation. Written… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Environmental History; History; Sonoran Desert; Arizona; Cacti

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Burtner, M. (2012). Crafting and Consuming an American Sonoran Desert: Global Visions, Regional Nature and National Meaning . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/268613

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Burtner, Marcus. “Crafting and Consuming an American Sonoran Desert: Global Visions, Regional Nature and National Meaning .” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/268613.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Burtner, Marcus. “Crafting and Consuming an American Sonoran Desert: Global Visions, Regional Nature and National Meaning .” 2012. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Burtner M. Crafting and Consuming an American Sonoran Desert: Global Visions, Regional Nature and National Meaning . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona; 2012. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/268613.

Council of Science Editors:

Burtner M. Crafting and Consuming an American Sonoran Desert: Global Visions, Regional Nature and National Meaning . [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Arizona; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/268613

18. Graham, Benjamin Jon. Profile of a Plant: The Olive in Early Medieval Italy, 400-900 CE.

Degree: PhD, History, 2014, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/108992

► For more than half a millennium the Roman Empire gave a schematic and legible form to the Mediterranean landscape, everywhere engineered to feed its massive… (more)

▼ For more than half a millennium the Roman Empire gave a schematic and legible form to the Mediterranean landscape, everywhere engineered to feed its massive army and urban centers. To those ends, the polity coopted the olive tree and drove the creation of intensive, large-scale oleicultural projects around the sea’s basin, which were connected to the capital by the Mediterranean’s buoyant shipping. With the collapse of the Roman Empire, the structures underpinning ancient forms of olive production and consumption decayed and disappeared. This dissertation examines the olive’s ecological and cultural transformations in the wake of Rome’s fall. Specifically, it focuses on early medieval Italy, a contested territory in this period, where Lombard kings, dukes, popes, abbots of powerful monasteries, Byzantine emperors, and Frankish lords competed for hegemony. As such, the olive-human relationship was expressed not in a single, uniform manner, but rather in a mosaic of local expressions, highly dependent upon immediate environmental and cultural forces. The essay illuminates some of the ways that early medieval Italian communities engaged their environmental inheritance, how they recast the stolid olive to fit local contingencies. The first chapter looks at northwest Tuscany, at the city of Lucca, where documentary and archaeological evidence enable a clear portrait of urban olive consumption. Central Italy and the Sabine hills frame the second chapter, which explores how the city of Rome’s contraction influenced olive growth in its hinterland. In chapter three, I explore the cultural afterlife of the olive, by focusing upon how the bishop’s of Rome reimagined the primary use of olive oil, as a lighting fuel rather than food. Finally, changes in the use of imaginary olives in Christian miracle stories and at cult sites constitutes the subject of the last chapter. By partnering with the olive, this dissertation shifts the focus away from the traditional, institutionally-centered story of “decline” in Dark Age Italy, onto the dynamic, lived interactions that gave form to the Middle Ages. Advisors/Committee Members: Squatriti, Paolo (committee member), Tucker, Richard P. (committee member), Hughes, Diane Owen (committee member), Van Dam, Raymond H. (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Medieval History; Environmental History; Mediterranean History; History (General); Humanities

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Graham, B. J. (2014). Profile of a Plant: The Olive in Early Medieval Italy, 400-900 CE. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/108992

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Graham, Benjamin Jon. “Profile of a Plant: The Olive in Early Medieval Italy, 400-900 CE.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/108992.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Graham, Benjamin Jon. “Profile of a Plant: The Olive in Early Medieval Italy, 400-900 CE.” 2014. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Graham BJ. Profile of a Plant: The Olive in Early Medieval Italy, 400-900 CE. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2014. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/108992.

Council of Science Editors:

Graham BJ. Profile of a Plant: The Olive in Early Medieval Italy, 400-900 CE. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/108992

Montana Tech

19. Brooks, David James. Restoring the "Shining Waters": Milltown, Montana and the History of Superfund Implementation.

Degree: PhD, 2012, Montana Tech

URL: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/836

► This dissertation is a case study of a dam removal and river restoration within the nation's largest Superfund site. In 1981, the U.S. Environmental… (more)

▼ This dissertation is a case study of a dam removal and river restoration within the nation's largest Superfund site. In 1981, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency included Milltown Reservoir on its first list of Superfund sites. Superfund law capped two decades of the federal government's most aggressive environmental legislation. While tracking the national story of Superfund law, my story provides a local view of how individuals, organizations, and agencies shaped the Superfund process. After the EPA designated Milltown a national Superfund site, the environment itself, persistent work within the channels of public policy, and federally-mediated compromise helped restore some shine to Milltown's waters. Milltown is representational, rather than unique. Human health concerns, which were the primary purpose of Superfund, garnered Milltown designation. Arsenic contaminated the groundwater in a residential community. Groundwater contamination has been the most consistent and worrisome risk throughout the history of designating Superfund sites, while arsenic tops the list of contaminants reported at those sites. Nearly a century of upstream mining caused Milltown's problem. Mining sites cost more and occur more frequently than any other Superfund cleanups. Two major corporations were responsible for funding cleanup at Milltown, whereas nearly half of all Superfund sites have two to ten responsible parties. Thus, Milltown is exceptionally representative of Superfund's history. Using extensive archival research, government documents, oral histories, newspaper accounts and personal observation, I have written a dissertation that explores how Milltown provoked major changes in Superfund implementation and late-20th century environmentalism. The final remedy at Milltown removed an average-sized dam and restored a section of the Clark Fork River. The process increased the importance of public input in Superfund and its emphasis on restoring environments. That shift coincided with a turn toward repairing degraded landscapes by both grassroots and national environmental groups. Milltown helped foster the growth of a corporate, restoration industry. And, it helped define restoration, while pushing restorative efforts beyond the confines of its Superfund boundaries.

Subjects/Keywords: Bioregional History; Clark Fork River; Environmental History; Environmental law; Restoration; Superfund

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Brooks, D. J. (2012). Restoring the "Shining Waters": Milltown, Montana and the History of Superfund Implementation. (Doctoral Dissertation). Montana Tech. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/836

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Brooks, David James. “Restoring the "Shining Waters": Milltown, Montana and the History of Superfund Implementation.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Montana Tech. Accessed December 06, 2019. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/836.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Brooks, David James. “Restoring the "Shining Waters": Milltown, Montana and the History of Superfund Implementation.” 2012. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Brooks DJ. Restoring the "Shining Waters": Milltown, Montana and the History of Superfund Implementation. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Montana Tech; 2012. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/836.

Council of Science Editors:

Brooks DJ. Restoring the "Shining Waters": Milltown, Montana and the History of Superfund Implementation. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Montana Tech; 2012. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/836

Bowling Green State University

20. Penzinski, Kyle Roman. Not Another Fishing Tale: Lake Erie's Story of Eutrophication, Remediation, and the Current Struggle for Life.

Degree: MA, History, 2018, Bowling Green State University

URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1530623838089126

► Lake Erie. One of the most influential bodies of water in The United States is dying. It has a history of struggle, and it continues… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: History; Environmental Studies; Eutrophication; Remediation; Lake Erie; Environmental History; Sustainability

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Penzinski, K. R. (2018). Not Another Fishing Tale: Lake Erie's Story of Eutrophication, Remediation, and the Current Struggle for Life. (Masters Thesis). Bowling Green State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1530623838089126

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Penzinski, Kyle Roman. “Not Another Fishing Tale: Lake Erie's Story of Eutrophication, Remediation, and the Current Struggle for Life.” 2018. Masters Thesis, Bowling Green State University. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1530623838089126.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Penzinski, Kyle Roman. “Not Another Fishing Tale: Lake Erie's Story of Eutrophication, Remediation, and the Current Struggle for Life.” 2018. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Penzinski KR. Not Another Fishing Tale: Lake Erie's Story of Eutrophication, Remediation, and the Current Struggle for Life. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Bowling Green State University; 2018. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1530623838089126.

Council of Science Editors:

Penzinski KR. Not Another Fishing Tale: Lake Erie's Story of Eutrophication, Remediation, and the Current Struggle for Life. [Masters Thesis]. Bowling Green State University; 2018. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1530623838089126

Harvard University

21. Thomson, Jennifer Christine. From Wilderness to the Toxic Environment: Health in American Environmental Politics, 1945-Present.

Degree: PhD, History of Science, 2013, Harvard University

URL: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11125030

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This dissertation joins the history of science and medicine with environmental history to explore the language of health in environmental politics. Today, in government policy… (more)

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This dissertation joins the history of science and medicine with environmental history to explore the language of health in environmental politics. Today, in government policy briefs and mission statements of environmental non-profits, newspaper editorials and activist journals, claims about the health of the planet and its human and non-human inhabitants abound. Yet despite this rhetorical ubiquity, modern environmental politics are ideologically and organizationally fractured along the themes of whose health is at stake and how that health should be protected. This dissertation traces how these competing conceptions of health came to structure the landscape of American environmental politics. Beginning in the early 1950s, an expanding network of environmental activists began to think in terms of protecting the health of the planet and its inhabitants from the unprecedented hazards of nuclear energy and chemical proliferation. They did this by appropriating models and metaphors of health developed by postwar ecologists, philosophers, epidemiologists and nuclear physicians. Through this process of appropriation, scientists and philosophers were likewise drawn into environmental activism. Through five case studies, this dissertation traces the collaborations between scientists, environmental activists, philosophers, and medical doctors which enabled a broad range of articulations of health: the health of the wild, the health of the environment, the health of the planet, and the health of humans within the environment. Each case study attends to the intersection of political thought and practice, and explores how science and environmental activism were in constant dialogue in the postwar period. Drawing on archival materials and extensive oral history interviews, this dissertation demonstrates the centrality of health to American environmental politics from the end of World War Two until the present day.

History of Science

Advisors/Committee Members: Rosenberg, Charles (advisor), Voskuhl, Adelheid (committee member), Turner, James (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: History of science; History; Environmental studies; biocentrism; environmental health; environmental politics; Gaia; Gary Snyder; radicalism

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Thomson, J. C. (2013). From Wilderness to the Toxic Environment: Health in American Environmental Politics, 1945-Present. (Doctoral Dissertation). Harvard University. Retrieved from http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11125030

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Thomson, Jennifer Christine. “From Wilderness to the Toxic Environment: Health in American Environmental Politics, 1945-Present.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Harvard University. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11125030.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Thomson, Jennifer Christine. “From Wilderness to the Toxic Environment: Health in American Environmental Politics, 1945-Present.” 2013. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Thomson JC. From Wilderness to the Toxic Environment: Health in American Environmental Politics, 1945-Present. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Harvard University; 2013. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11125030.

Council of Science Editors:

Thomson JC. From Wilderness to the Toxic Environment: Health in American Environmental Politics, 1945-Present. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Harvard University; 2013. Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11125030

University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

22. Schuelke, Nicholas Joel. Urban River Restoration and Environmental Justice: Addressing Flood Risk Along Milwaukee's Kinnickinnic River.

Degree: MA, Geography, 2014, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

URL: https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/513

► Flood risk has only recently received attention in environmental justice research. Few `flood justice' studies in the US have focused on urban inland flooding… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Environmental Justice; Flooding; River Restoration; Urban Environmental History; Geography; History; Other Environmental Sciences

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Schuelke, N. J. (2014). Urban River Restoration and Environmental Justice: Addressing Flood Risk Along Milwaukee's Kinnickinnic River. (Thesis). University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Retrieved from https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/513

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Schuelke, Nicholas Joel. “Urban River Restoration and Environmental Justice: Addressing Flood Risk Along Milwaukee's Kinnickinnic River.” 2014. Thesis, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Accessed December 06, 2019. https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/513.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Schuelke, Nicholas Joel. “Urban River Restoration and Environmental Justice: Addressing Flood Risk Along Milwaukee's Kinnickinnic River.” 2014. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Schuelke NJ. Urban River Restoration and Environmental Justice: Addressing Flood Risk Along Milwaukee's Kinnickinnic River. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee; 2014. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/513.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

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Schuelke NJ. Urban River Restoration and Environmental Justice: Addressing Flood Risk Along Milwaukee's Kinnickinnic River. [Thesis]. University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee; 2014. Available from: https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/513

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

23. Young, Theresa L. Living tools: an environmental history of afforestation and the shifting image of trees.

Degree: MA, Department of History, 2013, Kansas State University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15674

► In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Timber Culture Act (1873) and the development of the field of scientific forestry shifted the social… (more)

▼ In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Timber Culture Act (1873) and the development of the field of scientific forestry shifted the social conception of trees from a cultural icon, into living technological tools. Beginning with the antebellum publications of George Perkins Marsh, who argued for the preservation and restoration of forests for the benefit of all, scientists, railroad developers, and plains settlers advocated for the cultural importance of trees as a living tool. Assured by railroad-boosters, the budding Forestry Bureau, and pro-tree legislators that rainfall would follow their planting efforts, waves of emigrants who relocated to the grasslands from the eastern forested areas planted millions of trees in an attempt to afforest the open prairies, creating traceable environmental and social changes over time. Environmental historian Elliott West asserts, “Only people have tried on a massive scale to move imagined environments out of their heads and to duplicate them in the world where others live,” and the grasslands of Kansas is one of these environments. This thesis argues that the scientific field of forestry developed a system of prairie tree planting (afforestation) aimed at altering the environment of the Great Plains with artificial forests and created a technological construction of the Kansas environment. The enactment of the Timber Culture Act was a watershed moment because it elevated the social conceptions of trees to that of a living tool and created the need for a national Forestry Bureau. Primary source documents reveal that the general perception held in the nineteenth century was that the natural environment and climate was malleable. The development of profit-centered tree farms furthered the idea that forests were like any other manageable crop. The changes over time in the forest cover of Kansas resulted in an altered ecology and the introduction of invasive species, but most importantly, it altered the cultural perception of how Kansas should look. Advisors/Committee Members: Bonnie Lynn-Sherow.

Subjects/Keywords: Environmental History; Kansas History; History of Technology; Timber Culture Act; Afforestation; History; Environmental Studies (0477); Forestry (0478); History (0578)

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Young, T. L. (2013). Living tools: an environmental history of afforestation and the shifting image of trees. (Masters Thesis). Kansas State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15674

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Young, Theresa L. “Living tools: an environmental history of afforestation and the shifting image of trees.” 2013. Masters Thesis, Kansas State University. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15674.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Young, Theresa L. “Living tools: an environmental history of afforestation and the shifting image of trees.” 2013. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Young TL. Living tools: an environmental history of afforestation and the shifting image of trees. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Kansas State University; 2013. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15674.

Council of Science Editors:

Young TL. Living tools: an environmental history of afforestation and the shifting image of trees. [Masters Thesis]. Kansas State University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15674

Louisiana State University

24. Tiegs, Robert. Wrestling with Neptune: The Political Consequences of the Military Inundations during the Dutch Revolt.

Degree: PhD, History, 2016, Louisiana State University

URL: etd-04012016-120158 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3931

► Over the course of several centuries during the High and Late Middle Ages the people of Holland developed a vast water-management infrastructure to protect themselves… (more)

▼ Over the course of several centuries during the High and Late Middle Ages the people of Holland developed a vast water-management infrastructure to protect themselves against flooding. Enormous sections of the province lay at or below sea-level, so it was only through constant diligence that they kept their lands dry. They found that the best way to maintain these flood defenses was through cooperation and consensus forming at the local and regional level. Those who would be affected an inundation were given a chance to participate in the decision-making process about how to prevent floods from occurring. These environmental influences led those in Holland to develop a culture based on discussion, debate, compromise, and consensus forming. In the historiography this approach is known as the poldermodel. In the late sixteenth century a series of natural and human-made floods would test the limits of the poldermodel in Holland. In November 1570 the All Saints Day Flood struck the province and several others located along the North Sea. This natural disaster was arguably the worst flood ever to hit Holland, devastating the flood defenses across the province. Before they had time to repair all the damages, war erupted in 1572 as those in Holland revolted against their Spanish Habsburg sovereign. Since the rebel forces in Holland were outmatched by the Habsburg forces they frequently used floods for strategic ends. These military inundations were carried out almost indiscriminately and with little to no regard of the long-term consequences. During the siege of Leiden in 1574 the rebels set roughly half of the province temporarily underwater so they could reach the city with ships and prevent it from falling into Spanish hands. That the rebels adopted the motto “better broken lands than lost lands” demonstrates how far they were willing to go with the use of the military inundations. These floods essentially broke the poldermodel in Holland. Many of the different cities represented in the provincial assembly the States of Holland placed civic priorities above all else. The city of Gouda in particular simply refused to send delegates to the meetings until the Leidschendam was repaired which had been breached during the siege of Leiden. In the end the city sent out its militia and closed the opening itself, without the States’ permission. This civic particularism prevented discussion, debate, and the ability to form consensus. It was the individuals with water-management experience which ultimately repaired the poldermodel. They developed a number of ways to satisfy the civic interests and rebuild the discussion culture in the province. When the war resumed following a short truce from 1576 to 1579 known as the Pacification of Ghent, the States of Holland maintained the poldermodel by shifting the burden of the inundations onto neighboring provinces, and constructing fortifications to keep the enemy out of Holland.

Subjects/Keywords: Military History; Environmental History; History of the Netherlands; Dutch Revolt

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Tiegs, R. (2016). Wrestling with Neptune: The Political Consequences of the Military Inundations during the Dutch Revolt. (Doctoral Dissertation). Louisiana State University. Retrieved from etd-04012016-120158 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3931

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Tiegs, Robert. “Wrestling with Neptune: The Political Consequences of the Military Inundations during the Dutch Revolt.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Louisiana State University. Accessed December 06, 2019. etd-04012016-120158 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3931.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Tiegs, Robert. “Wrestling with Neptune: The Political Consequences of the Military Inundations during the Dutch Revolt.” 2016. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Tiegs R. Wrestling with Neptune: The Political Consequences of the Military Inundations during the Dutch Revolt. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Louisiana State University; 2016. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: etd-04012016-120158 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3931.

Council of Science Editors:

Tiegs R. Wrestling with Neptune: The Political Consequences of the Military Inundations during the Dutch Revolt. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Louisiana State University; 2016. Available from: etd-04012016-120158 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3931

University of Saskatchewan

25. Todd, Matthew 1979-. The Paradise Syndrome: Environment, Boosters and Ranching along the Montana/Alberta Borderlands.

Degree: 2017, University of Saskatchewan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/8354

► The history of cattle ranching on the Great Plains combines climate, grasslands, water, people and animals. Unfortunately, it also includes environmental missteps and catastrophes which… (more)

▼ The history of cattle ranching on the Great Plains combines climate, grasslands, water, people and animals. Unfortunately, it also includes environmental missteps and catastrophes which has led to numerous negative histories that end on an environmental low-point. The resulting studies tend to blame rancher’s greed for damaging their environment, as opposed to finding an alternative explanation for their actions. Ranching histories, therefore, often follow a decline framework. The overarching message for these types of histories is that human interaction with the natural world is inherently negative. In short, historians have not been overly kind to cattle ranchers. This study complicates that history by examining why ranchers made the mistakes that they did and how they tried to correct them. It does not end on the environmental low point for the cattle industry but looks past it to consider what, if anything, was done to improve ranching methods. The discussion considers how ranching in Alberta and Montana started and why ranchers operated the way that they did. It argues that ranchers in both places started their operations with a fundamentally flawed understanding of the environment because the climate, grasslands and economic potential of the area had been a favorite topic for boosters during the 1870-1880s. What resulted was the importation of thousands of cattle and inappropriate ranching methods. After several years of temporary equilibrium in 1886/1887 a drought and hard winter occurred. By spring it was realized that thousands of cattle had frozen or starved to death where they stood. However, the disaster was not the end of the cattle industry in either Montana or Alberta. Ranchers on both sides of the border tried (often successfully) to adapt to their environment in order to continue in their industry. It is the recognition of a flawed understanding of the environment and then trying to adapt to it that forms the backbone of this work. This study is also a bioregional history of the nineteenth century Montana and Alberta borderlands. As such, it examines how people and governments responded to an environment and climate misrepresented by booster literature and government policy. The work itself is bioregional, yet also deals with broader ideas of nation building, borderland economics, the concept of natural disaster, and indigenous displacement. Advisors/Committee Members: Cunfer, Geoff, Waiser, Bill, Clifford, Jim, Belcher, Ken.

Subjects/Keywords: environmental history; borderlands; Alberta history; Montana history; cattle ranching

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Todd, M. 1. (2017). The Paradise Syndrome: Environment, Boosters and Ranching along the Montana/Alberta Borderlands. (Thesis). University of Saskatchewan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10388/8354

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Todd, Matthew 1979-. “The Paradise Syndrome: Environment, Boosters and Ranching along the Montana/Alberta Borderlands.” 2017. Thesis, University of Saskatchewan. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/8354.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Todd, Matthew 1979-. “The Paradise Syndrome: Environment, Boosters and Ranching along the Montana/Alberta Borderlands.” 2017. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Todd M1. The Paradise Syndrome: Environment, Boosters and Ranching along the Montana/Alberta Borderlands. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Saskatchewan; 2017. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/8354.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Todd M1. The Paradise Syndrome: Environment, Boosters and Ranching along the Montana/Alberta Borderlands. [Thesis]. University of Saskatchewan; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/8354

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

McMaster University

26. Commito, Michael. 'Our society lacks consistently defined attitudes towards the black bear': The History of Black Bear Hunting and Management in Ontario, 1912-1987.

Degree: PhD, 2015, McMaster University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18055

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What kind of animal was a black bear? Were black bears primarily pests, pets, furbearers or game animals? Farmers, conservationists, tourists, trappers, and hunters in… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: environmental history; wildlife management; Ontario history; Canadian history; black bears

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Commito, M. (2015). 'Our society lacks consistently defined attitudes towards the black bear': The History of Black Bear Hunting and Management in Ontario, 1912-1987. (Doctoral Dissertation). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18055

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Commito, Michael. “'Our society lacks consistently defined attitudes towards the black bear': The History of Black Bear Hunting and Management in Ontario, 1912-1987.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, McMaster University. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18055.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Commito, Michael. “'Our society lacks consistently defined attitudes towards the black bear': The History of Black Bear Hunting and Management in Ontario, 1912-1987.” 2015. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Commito M. 'Our society lacks consistently defined attitudes towards the black bear': The History of Black Bear Hunting and Management in Ontario, 1912-1987. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. McMaster University; 2015. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18055.

Council of Science Editors:

Commito M. 'Our society lacks consistently defined attitudes towards the black bear': The History of Black Bear Hunting and Management in Ontario, 1912-1987. [Doctoral Dissertation]. McMaster University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18055

University of Minnesota

27. Wing, John Thomas. Roots of empire: State formation and the politics of timber access.

Degree: PhD, History, 2009, University of Minnesota

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53843

► During the early modern period, Spain's empire extended into parts of five continents, separated by vast stretches of water. Spain depended on wooden ocean-going vessels… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Early Modern Spain; Environmental History; Forest History; State Formation; History

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Wing, J. T. (2009). Roots of empire: State formation and the politics of timber access. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Minnesota. Retrieved from http://purl.umn.edu/53843

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Wing, John Thomas. “Roots of empire: State formation and the politics of timber access.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Minnesota. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://purl.umn.edu/53843.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Wing, John Thomas. “Roots of empire: State formation and the politics of timber access.” 2009. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Wing JT. Roots of empire: State formation and the politics of timber access. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Minnesota; 2009. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://purl.umn.edu/53843.

Council of Science Editors:

Wing JT. Roots of empire: State formation and the politics of timber access. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Minnesota; 2009. Available from: http://purl.umn.edu/53843

University of Nevada – Las Vegas

28. Carr Childers, Leisl Ann. The Size of the risk: An environmental history of the nuclear Great Basin.

Degree: PhD, History, 2011, University of Nevada – Las Vegas

URL: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/974

► Throughout the twentieth century, Congress has managed the nation's public lands for the greater good of the country under a multiple-use construct. Land-use decisions… (more)

▼ Throughout the twentieth century, Congress has managed the nation's public lands for the greater good of the country under a multiple-use construct. Land-use decisions based on serving the nation's public interest entailed federal land management agencies finding the utility of the land in order to put as much of it as possible into some kind of economic production and provide equitable access, as much as was feasible, to all the various public land users. But every federal program enacted on the nation's public lands has had an associated cost; not everyone or every environment has benefited from multiple-use public land programs. The problems associated with these programs include range degradation, radioactive fallout, a lack of protected natural places, and frustrated wild horse management. In considering public land programs across the Great Basin, an area predominately consisting of public domain, this study makes a holistic evaluation of these costs by setting each of the different public land programs across the region alongside each other to better understand their conflicting relationship. The "size of the risk," a term atomic scientist Enrico Fermi used to describe his estimation of the possible problems associated with a continental nuclear test site, is the sum of the collective costs of all the public land programs throughout the twentieth century. Moving between the national and the local by capturing the voices of those residents and federal officials involved in the creation and implementation of public land programs, this work determines the cost of land-use conflicts, the size of which is the Great Basin's human and natural environment. The themes developed in this work include a closer examination of the multiple-use concept and its impact on the nation's public lands. Multiple-use theoretically promoted maximum efficient and equitable use of public land, but in actual practice, it created a contradictory hierarchical scale of use which privileged national interests over local development, economic value over existence value, profitability over sustainability, and maximization over sufficiency. Persistent efforts by public land users to maximize one or more aspects of their version of land use often required other users to minimize their land-use. Maximization created a pattern of public land management replicated throughout the American West that created conflict over the very purpose of nation's public lands. In one way or another, contention about the use of the Great Basin's lands arose out of people's perception of the region as a wasteland. This region, historically considered the nation's wasted land because it remained in the public domain, was populated by marginal cultural groups including Mormons, Basques, southern European immigrants, and Native Americans. For these groups, the wasteland was their homeland. The tension between those that lived in the Great Basin and used its public lands and those who were responsible for the management of those lands created an… Advisors/Committee Members: David Wrobel, Chair, Greg Hise, Elizabeth Nelson, Andrew Kirk.

Subjects/Keywords: Environmental Policy; History; Policy History, Theory, and Methods; United States History

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Carr Childers, L. A. (2011). The Size of the risk: An environmental history of the nuclear Great Basin. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Nevada – Las Vegas. Retrieved from https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/974

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Carr Childers, Leisl Ann. “The Size of the risk: An environmental history of the nuclear Great Basin.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Nevada – Las Vegas. Accessed December 06, 2019. https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/974.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Carr Childers, Leisl Ann. “The Size of the risk: An environmental history of the nuclear Great Basin.” 2011. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Carr Childers LA. The Size of the risk: An environmental history of the nuclear Great Basin. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Nevada – Las Vegas; 2011. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/974.

Council of Science Editors:

Carr Childers LA. The Size of the risk: An environmental history of the nuclear Great Basin. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Nevada – Las Vegas; 2011. Available from: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/974

Princeton University

29. Ayers, Elaine. Strange Beauty: Botanical Collecting, Preservation, and Display in the Nineteenth Century Tropics .

Degree: PhD, 2019, Princeton University

URL: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015m60qv71m

► “STRANGE BEAUTY” uses a material culture approach to untangle the botanical dualities that, from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, produced a constructed image of… (more)

▼ “STRANGE BEAUTY” uses a material culture approach to untangle the botanical dualities that, from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, produced a constructed image of East Indian rainforests, obscuring the oftentimes violent racialized, gendered, and sexualized work contained therein. The plants written into scientific and aesthetic descriptions of “tropical nature,” I argue, constructed a view of rainforests as extractable, collectible storehouses caught somewhere between fecundity and loss, between beauty and decay. I focus on four plants transformed from curious objects in the field to herbarium specimens in Britain and Europe bound up in debates over evolution and “normalcy” while speaking to the developing ideals and disillusionments of tropical nature. These objects confused reproductive boundaries, embodying the possibilities and perceived environmental dangers while challenging typical labor practices producing a collectible, useful, and containable nature. Chapter One follows the most miniscule, mundane, of plants: Moss. Paradoxically figured as both “pure” in its seemingly invisible self-reproduction and salacious in its place in pornography, moss functioned as a preservative agent for more “valuable” plants. Simultaneously, botanists interested in moss on its own terms transformed this packing material into an object of microscopic inquiry. Next, I follow an orchid illustrated by a prolific female artist. Explicitly sexualized in their depictions, orchids challenged aesthetic representations, transforming the technical process of botanical illustration while contributing to a false construction of the tropics inevitably leading to affective dissonances among naturalists. Here, theories of color and artistic practice become central to the politics of botanical preservation and display. Chapter Three traces a carnivorous pitcher plant collected by a liminal figure working for the East India Company. The pitcher plant came to crystallize colonial fears of environmental pushback—the phallic, carnivorous plant challenged theories of order while provoking questions about colonial consumption. I end with the largest and rarest plant in the world—the corpse flower. That a flower could actively mimic animal behavior to attract pollinators upended the chain of floral being. Resistant to all forms of collection, preservation, and display, the corpse flower proved to be the ultimate form of tropical nature’s resistance to human intervention and control. Advisors/Committee Members: Burnett, D. Graham (advisor), Milam, Erika L (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: Art History; Botany; Environmental History; History of Science; Victorian; Visual Studies

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Ayers, E. (2019). Strange Beauty: Botanical Collecting, Preservation, and Display in the Nineteenth Century Tropics . (Doctoral Dissertation). Princeton University. Retrieved from http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015m60qv71m

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ayers, Elaine. “Strange Beauty: Botanical Collecting, Preservation, and Display in the Nineteenth Century Tropics .” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, Princeton University. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015m60qv71m.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ayers, Elaine. “Strange Beauty: Botanical Collecting, Preservation, and Display in the Nineteenth Century Tropics .” 2019. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Ayers E. Strange Beauty: Botanical Collecting, Preservation, and Display in the Nineteenth Century Tropics . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Princeton University; 2019. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015m60qv71m.

Council of Science Editors:

Ayers E. Strange Beauty: Botanical Collecting, Preservation, and Display in the Nineteenth Century Tropics . [Doctoral Dissertation]. Princeton University; 2019. Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015m60qv71m

University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

30. Rouphail, Robert M. “Essentially cyclonic:” race, gender, and disaster in modern mauritius.

Degree: PhD, History, 2019, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/105602

► “Essentially Cyclonic” argues that tropical cyclones were a constituent and proportional force for historical change in twentieth century Mauritius. Whether as moments of acute catastrophe… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: African History; Indian Ocean History; Environmental History; Mauritius

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Rouphail, R. M. (2019). “Essentially cyclonic:” race, gender, and disaster in modern mauritius. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/105602

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Rouphail, Robert M. ““Essentially cyclonic:” race, gender, and disaster in modern mauritius.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Accessed December 06, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/105602.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Rouphail, Robert M. ““Essentially cyclonic:” race, gender, and disaster in modern mauritius.” 2019. Web. 06 Dec 2019.

Vancouver:

Rouphail RM. “Essentially cyclonic:” race, gender, and disaster in modern mauritius. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2019. [cited 2019 Dec 06]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/105602.

Council of Science Editors:

Rouphail RM. “Essentially cyclonic:” race, gender, and disaster in modern mauritius. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/105602

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