Brault, Robert Joseph. “Writing Wilderness: Conserving, Preserving, and Inhabiting the Land in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.” Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 2000. 246 pp. Traces the development of the concepts of wilderness conservation and preservation through the following works: Eliza Farmham’s Life in Prairie Land (1846), George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature (1864), Henry David Thoreau’s The Maine Woods (1864), John Muir’s Our National Parks (1901), Chief Seattle’s speech (1855), and Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron” (1886). Stresses an ecofeminist approach to literature.

Brosnan, Kathleen Anne. “Uniting Mountain and Plain: Urbanization, Law, and Environmental Change in the Denver Region, 1858–1903.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1999. Explores the transition of the region of Denver, Colorado, from an agrarian community to an urban community through economic, social, and technological development.

Disponzio, Joseph John. “The Garden Theory and Landscape Practice of Jean-Marie Morel.” Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 2000. 824 pp. Studies the life and works of eighteenth-century French landscape architect Jean-Marie Morel.

Dodds, George Peter. “Landscape and Garden in the Work of Carlo Scarpa.” Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2000. 336 pp. Discusses diversity in the work of Italian landscape architect Carlo Scarpa (1906–1978).

Greene, Janet Wells. “Camera Wars: Images of Coal Miners and the Fragmentation of Working Class Identity, 1933–1947.” Ph.D. diss., New York University, 2000. 580 pp. Examines the use of photographs depicting poverty, mining accidents, and the quality of mining life by the United Mine Workers of America as tools to build support for the laborers and to gain better health care for miners and their families.

Grigsby, Bryon Lee. “‘The Doctour Maketh This Descriptioun’: The Moral and Social Meanings of Leprosy and Bubonic Plague in Literary, Theological, and Medical Texts of the English Middle Ages and Renaissance.” Ph.D. diss., Loyola University of Chicago, 2000. 325 pp. Examines the association of the diseases of syphilis, bubonic plague, and leprosy with sin.

Jordan, James Walter. “Late Quaternary Coastal Environments and Human Occupation of the Western Alaska Peninsula.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2000. 186 pp. Examine coastal and landscape adaptations due to climate change during the Pleistocene and Holocene eras and the impact of these changes on human settlement in the region.

Kheel, Marti L. “An Ecofeminist Critique of Holist Nature Ethics: Attending to Non-Human Animals.” Ph.D. diss., Graduate Theological Union, 2000. 272 pp. The author asserts that the holistic philosophies of Theodore Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold, Holmes Rolston III, and Warwick Fox used animals as symbols and that their ecocentrism reflects a masculine viewpoint that fails to demonstrate compassion or respect for animals.

Moorhead, Laura Kaye. “White Plague in Black Los Angeles: Tuberculosis among African Americans in Los Angeles, 1930–1950.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, 2000. 151 pp. Studies socioeconomic conditions leading to the epidemic.

Morse, Susan Irene. “The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the Urban Landscape, 1827–1927.” Ph.D. diss., Temple University, 2000. 188 pp. Examines how this organization altered perceptions of the physical landscape in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Podobnik, Bruce Michael. “Global Energy Shifts: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective.” Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 2000. 320 pp. Considers motivations behind the decline of the coal industry in the nineteenth century and the rise of the petroleum industry in the twentieth century, particularly focusing on the role played by labor relations and other social factors in the shift from coal to petroleum as an energy resource.

Robinson, Scott Elmon. “The Flatland Factor: A Visual History of the Llano Estacado, 1890–1990.” Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Arlington, 2000. 276 pp. Examines symbolic images in literature and art depicting landscape change in the Llano Estacado region of Texas and New Mexico.

Starks, Tricia Ann. “The Body Soviet: Health, Hygiene, and the Path to a New Life in the 1920s.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 2000. 269 pp. Studies health reform and hygiene education programs in Russia following the 1917 revolution.

Wendelken, Rebecca Woodward. “Red Metal on the Steppes: The Spassky Copper Mines, Ltd., 1904–1919.” Ph.D. diss., Emory University, 2000. 397 pp. Studies labor relations at the British-owned Spassky Copper Mines company, located on Russia’s Kazak Steppes, examining cultural conflicts between Russian and Kazak nomad laborers.

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