History of Science in the United States: The Nineteenth Century

Subject Bibliography of Books and Dissertations (ca.1980 - )

 

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Environment and Conservation

SUBJECT

CITATION

Environment and conservation

Babcock, John G. C. “The Role of Public Discourse in the Soil Conservation Movement, 1865-1935. DAI 46/04 (1985): 838-A. (Doct. diss., University of Michigan, 1985)

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Black, Brian. Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Life. 239pp. Westport: Greenwood, 2006.

Environment and conservation

Bogue, Margaret Beattie. Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933. 444pp. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.

Environment and conservation

Burdick, Neal S. “Evolution of Environmental Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century America: An Interdisciplinary Study. DAI 41/11 (1981): 4752-A. (Doct. diss., Case Western Reserve University, 1981)

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Cohen, Shana Miriam. “American Garden Clubs and the Fight for Nature Preservation, 1890-1980.” DAI 67/04 (2006): -A. (Doct. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 2005)

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Corbin, Devin DeWayne. “The Work of Belonging: Agricultural Improvement, Romantic Wilderness, and the Rise of Restorationism in United States Environmental Literature.” DAI 66/03 (2005): 992-A. (Doct. diss., University of Minnesota, 2005)

Environment and conservation

Cox, Thomas R., Robert S. Maxwell, Phillip Drennon Thomas and Joseph J. Malone. This Well-Wooded Land: Americans and Their Forests from Colonial Times to the Present. 325pp. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Cumbler, John T. Reasonable Use: The People, the Environment, and the State, New England, 1790–1930. 268pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Dunlap, Thomas R. Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest. 206pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. 

Environment and conservation

Elkind, Sarah S. “Regionalism, Politics, and the Environment: Metropolitan Public Works in Boston, Massachusetts and Oakland, California, 1840 to 1940 and Beyond. DAI 55/08 (1995): 2538-A. (Doct. diss., University of Michigan, 1994)

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Falck, Zachary James Sopher. “Controlling Urban Weeds: People, Plants, and the Ecology of American Cities, 1888-2003.” DAI 65/02 (2004): 662-A. (Doct. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 2004) 

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Flores, Dan. The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. 285pp. Norman: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. 

Environment and conservation

Geis, Edward Warren. “Beyond the Great Divide: American Faith and Ecology in the Conservation Age. DAI 60/08 (2000): 2921-A. (Doct. diss., University of Utah, 1999)

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Glave, Dianne and Mark Stoll, editors. “To Love the Wind and the Rain”: African Americans and Environmental History. 288pp. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Grusin, Richard. Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America’s National Parks. 212pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Hall, Marcus. Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration. 310pp. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2005. (Comparing the United States and Italy and emphasizing the work of George Perkins Marsh)

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Hallock, Thomas. From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749–1826. 289pp. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 

Environment and conservation

Isenberg, Andrew C. “Indians, Whites, and the Buffalo: An Ecological History of the Great Plains, 1750-1900. DAI 54/05 (1993): 1924-A. (Doct. diss., Northwestern University, 1993)

Environment and conservation

Isenberg, Andrew C. The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920. (Studies in environment and history). 206pp. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Environment and conservation

Jacoby, Karl H. “The Recreation of Nature: A Social and Environmental History of American Conservation, 1872-1919. DAI 58/04 (1997): 1423-A. (Doct. diss., Yale University, 1997)

Environment and conservation

Judd, Richard William. Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England. 335pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Environment and conservation

Kay, Jeanne. “The Land of LeBaye: The Ecological Impact of the Green Bay Fur Trade, 1634-1836. DAI 38/12 (1978): 7557-A. (Doct. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1977)

Environment and conservation

Leavenworth, William Burgess. “The Ship in the Forest: New England Maritime Industries and Coastal Environment, 1630-1850. DAI 60/04 (1999): 1294-A. (Doct. diss., University of New Hampshire, 1999)

Environment and conservation

Lemon, James T. Liberal Dreams and Natures Limits: Great Cities of North America since 1600. 341pp. Toronto; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Environment and conservation

Long, James A. “Greening of the City: Environment and City Life in the Far West, 1870-1930. DAI 57/08 (1997): 3645-A. (Doct. diss., University of California at Berkeley, 1996)

Environment and conservation

Madison, Mark. “Green Fields: The Agrarian Conservation Movement in America, 1890-1990. DAI 56/11 (1996): 4536-A. (Doct. diss., Harvard University, 1995)

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Magoc, Chris J. So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture. 301pp. Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2002. 

Environment and conservation

Mazel, David. “American Literary Environmentalism, 1637-1872. DAI 57/07 (1997): 3022-A. (Doct. diss., Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1996)

Environment and conservation

McLaughlin, Charles Hugh, Jr. “The Interpretation of the Environmental Movement within Manual Arts, Industrial Arts Education, and Technology Education, 1875-1985. DAI 52/06 (1991): 2049-A. (Doct. diss., University of Maryland-College Park, 1991)

Environment and conservation

Melosi, Martin V. Coping with Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America, 1820-1980. 304pp. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.

Environment and conservation

Melosi, Martin V. Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment, 1880-1980. (Environmental History Series, 4). 268pp. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Melosi, Martin V. Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment. Revised edition. (History of the Urban Environment). 302pp. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 

environment and conservation

Melosi, Martin V., editor. Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1870-1930. 212pp. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980.

Environment and conservation

Merchant, Carolyn. Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England. 379pp. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Environment and conservation

Mitchell, Lee Clark. Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response. 320pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Peterson, Jon A. The Birth of City Planning in the United States, 1840-1917. (Creating the North American Landscape Series). 431pp. Baltimore / London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. 

Environment and conservation

Philippon, Daniel Joseph. “Representing ‘Nature’: American Nature Writers and the Growth of Environmental Organizations, 1885-1985. DAI 60/01 (1999): 132-A. (Doct. diss., University of Virginia, 1998)

Environment and conservation

Pierce, Daniel S. The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park. 254pp. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000.

Environment and conservation

Russell, Edmund P. “War on Insects: Warfare, Insecticides, and Environmental Change in the United States, 1870-1945. DAI 54/11 (1994): 4234-A. (Doct. diss., University of Michigan, 1993)

Environment and conservation

Sarver, Stephanie L. “Uneven Land: Nature and Agriculture in American Writing. DAI 57/12 (1997): 5154-A. (Doct. diss., University of California at Davis)

Environment and conservation

Scarpino, Philip V. Great River: An Environmental History of the Upper Mississippi, 1890-1950. 219pp. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1985.

Environment and conservation

Sellars, Richard West. Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History. 380pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, c1997.

Environment and conservation

Sjovold, Carl-Petter. “‘An angling people’: Nature, Sport, and Conservation in Nineteenth Century America. DAI 60/07 (2000): 2652-A. (Doct. diss., University of California, Davis, 1999)

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Smith, Daniel Somers. “The Discipline of Nature: A History of Environmental Discourse in the Northern Forest of New England and New York.” DAI 64/10 (2004): 3849-A (Doct. diss., Yale University, 2003) 

Environment and conservation

Spence, Mark David. “Dispossessing the Wilderness: The Preservationist Ideal, Indian Removal, and National Parks. DAI 57/09 (1997): 4094-A. (Doct. diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 1996)

Environment and conservation

Spence, Mark David. Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks. 190pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Environment and conservation

Steen, Harold K., editor. The Origins of the National Forests: A Centennial Symposium. 334pp. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 1992.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Stein, Amy Ilona. “Flooding the Market: A History of the American Wilderness Image.” DAI 66/09 (2006): -A. (Doct. diss., Northern Arizona University, 2005)

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Steinberg, Ted. Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History. 347pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 

Environment and conservation

Steinberg, Theodore. “Nature Incorporated: The Waltham-Lowell Mills and the Waters of New England. DAI 50/06 (1989): 1783-A. (Doct. diss., Brandeis University, 1989)

Environment and conservation

Steinberg, Theodore. Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England. (Studies in Environment and History). 284pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Environment and conservation

Stilgoe, John R. Common Landscapes of America, 1580-1845. 429pp. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1982.

Environment and conservation

Stradling, David. “Civilized Air: Coal, Smoke, and Environmentalism in America, 1880-1920. DAI 57/09 (1997): 4094-A. (Doct. diss., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1996)

Environment and conservation

Stradling, David. Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881-1951. 270pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Environment and conservation

Taylor, Joseph E. “Making Salmon: Economy, Culture, and Science in the Oregon Fisheries, Precontact to 1960. DAI 57/09 (1997): 4095-A. (Doct. diss., University of Washington, 1996)

Environment and conservation

Taylor, Joseph E. Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis. (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books). 421pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.

Environment and conservation

Tober, James A. Who Owns the Wildlife?: The Political Economy of Conservation in Nineteenth-Ventury America. 330pp. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

True, Alianor, editor. Wildfire: A Reader. 246pp. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001. 

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Tucker, Richard P. Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World. 551pp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Warren, Louis S., editor. American Environmental History. 359pp. Malden: Blackwell, 2003. 

Environment and conservation

Whitney, Gordon Graham. From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain: A History of Environmental Change in Temperate North America, 1500 to the Present. 451pp. Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Environment and conservation

Williams, Michael. Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geography. (Studies in Environment and History). 599pp. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Environment and conservation

Wishart, David J. The Fur Trade of the American West, 1807-1840: A Geographical Synthesis. 237pp. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.

Environment and conservation

Worster, Donald. Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West. 292pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Alaska

Haycox, Stephen. Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics, and Environment in Alaska. 180pp. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2002. 

Environment and conservation:

Arizona

Morehouse, Barbara J. A Place Called Grand Canyon: Contested Geographies. (Society, environment, and place). 202pp. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1996.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Arkansas

Key, Joseph Patrick. “‘Masters of this country’: The Quapaws and Environmental Change in Arkansas, 1673-1833.” DAI 63/01 (2002): 332-A. (Doct. diss., University of Arkansas, 2001) 

Environment and conservation:

Artifacts, instruments, substances

Maddox, Kenneth Wesley. “Intruder into Eden: The Train in the Nineteenth-Century American Landscape. DAI 60/06 (1999): 1800-A. (Doct. diss., Columbia University, 1999)

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Biographical

Azelvandre, John Paul. “Forging the Bonds of Sympathy: Spirituality, Individualism and Empiricism in the Ecological Thought of Liberty Hyde Bailey and Its Implications for Environmental Education.” DAI 62/07 (2002): 2370-A. (Doct. diss., New York University, 2002)

Environment and conservation:

Biographical

Curtis, Jane, Will Curtis and Frank Lieberman. The World of George Perkins Marsh, Americas First Conservationist and Environmentalist: An Illustrated Biography. 123pp. Woodstock, Vt.: Countryman Press for Woodstock Foundation, 1982.

Environment and conservation:

Biographical

Cutright, Paul Russell. Theodore Roosevelt: The Making of a Conservationist. 287pp. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985.

Environment and conservation:

Biographical

Dorman, Robert L. A Word for Nature: Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates, 1845-1913. 256pp. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1998.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Biographical

Ehrlich, Gretel. John Muir: Nature’s Visionary. 240pp. Washington: National Geographic Society, 2000. 

Environment and conservation:

Biographical

Fox, Stephen. The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy. 436pp. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. (Originally published as John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement, Boston 1981)

Environment and conservation:

Biographical

Freeman, Aileen Sallom. Theres a Fox in Pinchots Forest. 249 pp. Paupack, Pa.: FOSI, 1996.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Biographical

Gisel, Bonnie Johanna, editor. Kindred and Related Spirits: The Letters of John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr. 394pp. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2001. 

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Biographical

Greenfield, Daniel. “The Land as the Forgotten Teacher: How a Naturalistic Land Ethic, as Exemplified in Thoreau, Leopold, and Wilson, Informs Environmental Education.” DAI 67/01 (2006): 127-A. (Doct. diss., Kent State University, 2006)

Environment and conservation:

Biographical

Hales, Peter B. William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape. 355pp. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.

Environment and conservation:

Biographical

Lowenthal, David. George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation. Revised edition. (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books). 605pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000. (First published 1958)

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Biographical

Miller, Char. Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism. 458pp. Washington, D.C.: Island Press / Shearwater Books, 2001. 

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Biographical

Miller, Sally M., editor. John Muir in Historical Perspective. 265pp. New York: Peter Lang, 1999. 

Environment and conservation:

Biographical

Morgan, Paul Alan. Liberty Hyde Bailey: Pioneer and Prophet of an Ecological Philosophy of Education. DAI 59/05 (1998): 1506-A. (Doct. diss., Columbia University, 1998)

Environment and conservation:

Biographical

Morrison, Ernest. J. Horace McFarland: A Thorn for Beauty. 393pp. Harrisburg: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1995.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Biographical

Pinchot, Gifford. The Conservation Diaries of Gifford Pinchot. Edited by Harold K. Steen. 230pp. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 2001. 

Environment and conservation:

Biographical

Reiger, John F. Gifford Pinchot with Rod and Reel: Trading Places, from Historian to Environmental Activist: Two Essays in Conservation History. (Pinchot Lecture Series). 63pp. Milford, Pa: Grey Towers Press, 1994.

Environment and conservation:

Biographical

Sharp, William C. “In Search of a Preservation Ethic: William Temple Hornaday and American Environmental Education. DAI 58/11 (1998): 4212-A. (Doct. diss., University of Kansas, 1997)

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Biographical

Stevenson, Elizabeth. Park Maker: A Life of Frederick Law Olmstead. 484pp. New Brunswick, London: Transactions Publishers, 2000. (Originally published 1978) 

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

California

Isenberg, Andrew C. Mining California: An Ecological History. 242pp. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005.

Environment and conservation:

California

Tyrrell, Ian R. True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930. 313pp. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1999.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Colorado

Brosnan, Kathleen A. Uniting Mountain & Plain: Cities, Law, and Environmental Change along the Front Range. 276pp. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. 

Environment and conservation:

District of Columbia

Lacey, Michael J. “The Mysteries of Earth-Making Dissolve: A Study of Washington’s Intellectual Community and the Origins of American Environmentalism in the Late Nineteenth Century. DAI 40/01 (1979): 396-A. (Doct. diss., George Washington University, 1978)

Environment and conservation:

Florida

McCally, David. The Everglades: An Environmental History. (Florida history and culture series). 215pp. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999.

Environment and conservation:

Idaho

Fiege, Mark. “A World in the Making: The Social and Ecological Construction of Idaho’s Irrigated Landscape. DAI 55/08 (1995): 2538-A. (Doct. diss., University of Utah, 1994)

Environment and conservation:

Idaho

Fiege, Mark. Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West. (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books). 323pp Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Illinois

Hill, Libby. The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History. 302pp. Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 2000.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Illinois

Pellow, David Naguib. Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago. 234pp. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. 

Environment and conservation:

Institutional

Cohen, Michael P. The History of the Sierra Club, 1892-1970. 550pp. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1988.

Environment and conservation:

Institutional

Graham, Frank, Jr. The Audubon Ark: A History of the National Audubon Society. 333pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf; Random House, 1990.

Environment and conservation:

Institutional

MacMillan, Donald. Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution, and the Courts, 1890-1924. 296pp. Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 2000.

Environment and conservation:

Institutional

Magoc, Chris J. Yellowstone: The Creation and Selling of an American Landscape, 1870-1903. 266pp. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

Environment and conservation:

Institutional

Mason, Kathy S. “Before the Park Service: Standards and Management in the U.S. National Parks, 1872-1916. 182pp. DAI 60/04 (1999): 1295-A. (Doct. diss., Miami University, 1999)

Environment and conservation:

Institutional

Meyerson, Harvey. “The Army’s Forgotten Environmentalists: Soldiers and Yosemite, 1891-1898. DAI 58/04 (1997): 1424-A. (Doct. diss., Brandeis University, 1997)

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Institutional

Meyerson, Harvey. Nature’s Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite. 318pp. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. 

Environment and conservation:

Institutional

Pritchard, James A. “Preserving Natural Conditions: Science and the Perception of Nature in Yellowstone National Park. DAI 57/06 (1996): 2643-A. (Doct. diss., University of Kansas, 1996)

Environment and conservation:

Institutional

Pritchard, James A. Preserving Yellowstones Natural Conditions: Science and the Perception of Nature. 370pp. Lincoln, Nebr. University of Nebraska Press: 1999.

Environment and conservation:

Institutional

Runte, Alfred. Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness. 271pp. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Institutional

Schullery, Paul and Lew Whittlesey. Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park. 125pp. Lincoln / London: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. 

Environment and conservation:

Institutional

Zitt, Thomas Joseph. “Reinventing Nature in America’s First National Park: Struggles Over Management Policies in Yellowstone. DAI 54/03 (1993): 982-A. (Doct. diss, Bowling Green State University, 1992)

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Louisiana

Colten, Craig E. An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature. 245pp. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Louisiana

Kelman, Ari. A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. 283pp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Maryland

Keiner, Christine. “Scientists, Oystermen, and Maryland Oyster Conservation Politics. 1880-1969: A Study of Two Cultures.” DAI 61/10  (2001): 4153-A. (Doct. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 2001) 

Environment and conservation:

Massachusetts

Friedman, Ruth Lynn. “Governing the Land: An Environmental History of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1600-1861. DAI 54/04 (1993): 1514-A. (Doct. diss., Brandeis University, 1993)

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Massachusetts

Haglund, Karl. Inventing the Charles River. 493pp. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. 

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Mississippi

Saikku, Mikko. This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain. 373pp. Athens / London: University of Georgia Press, 2005. 

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

New Hampshire

Cenkl, Pavel. This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, 1784–1911. 178pp. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

New York

Anderson, Tom. The Fine Piece of Water: An Environmental History of Long Island. 256pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. 

Environment and conservation:

New York

Garrett, Thomas Myers. A History of Pleasure Gardens in New York City, 1700-1865. DAI 39/04 (1978): 1931-A. (Doct. diss., New York University, 1978)

Environment and conservation:

New York

Irwin, William. The New Niagara: Tourism, Technology, and the Landscape of Niagara Falls, 1776-1917. 276pp. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.

Environment and conservation:

New York

Keller, Jane Eblen. Adirondack Wilderness: A Story of Man and Nature. 241pp. Syracuse, N. Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1980.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

North Carolina

Silver, Timothy. Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America. 346pp. Chapel Hill / London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 

Environment and conservation:

Sources

Merrill, Marlene Deahl, editor. Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition. 315pp. Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Sources

Muir, John. Travels in Alaska. Introduction by Edward Hoagland. 247p. New York: Modern Library, 2002. 

Environment and conservation:

West Virginia

Lewis, Ronald L. Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920. 348pp. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Wisconsin

Olmansom, Eric Donald. “Romantics, Scientists, Boosters, and the Making of the Chequamegon Bay Region on the South Shore of Lake Superior, 1820–1900s.” DAI 61/12 (2001): 4894-A. (Doct. diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2000) 

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION:

Wisconsin

Summers, Gregory. Consuming Nature: Environmentalism in the Fox River Valley, 1850–1950. 256pp. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.

Environment and conservation:

Wyoming

Bartlett, Richard A. Yellowstone: A Wilderness Besieged. 436pp. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985.

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Ethnicity, Race, and Gender

SUBJECT

CITATION

Ethnicity, race, and gender

Bederman, Gail L. “Manhood and ‘Civilization’: American Debates about Race and Gender, 1880-1917. DAI 54/10 (1994): 3853-A. (Doct. diss., Brown University, 1993)

ETHNICITY, RACE, AND GENDER

Brace, C. Loring. “Race” Is a Four Letter Word: The Genesis of the Concept. 326pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Ethnicity, race, and gender

Dain, Bruce R. “A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory, 1787-1859. DAI 57/08 (1997): 3643-A. (Doct. diss., Princeton University, 1996)

ETHNICITY, RACE, AND GENDER

Dain, Bruce R. Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic. 321pp. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. 

ETHNICITY, RACE, AND GENDER

Gamez, Alicia Maria. “Making American Nature: Scientific Narratives of Origin and Order in Visual and Literary Conceptions of Race in the Early American Republic.” DAI 61/02 (2000): 657-A. (Doct. diss., Stanford University Press, 2000. 

Ethnicity, race, and gender

Gossett, Thomas F. Race: The History of an Idea in America. New ed. (Race and American culture). 520 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

ETHNICITY, RACE, AND GENDER

Jackson, John P., Jr. and Nadine M. Weidman. Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction. 403pp. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006.

ETHNICITY, RACE, AND GENDER

Lindquist, Malinda Alaine. “The Gender of Racial Science: Modern Black Manhood and Its Making, 1890-2000.” DAI 65/01 (2004): 267-A. (Doct. diss., Princeton University, 2004) 

ETHNICITY, RACE, AND GENDER

Malcolmson, Scott L. One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race. 584pp. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. 

ETHNICITY, RACE, AND GENDER

Marshall, Keith Alan. “The Missing Ideological Link: Functionalist Ideology and the ‘Scientific’ Construction of Race in the 19th Century.” DAI 62/11 (2002): 3946-A. (Doct diss., University of Illinois, Urban-Champaign, 2001) 

ETHNICITY, RACE, AND GENDER

Reid, Mandy Aimil. “ ‘A Most Terrible Spectacle’: Visualizing Racial Science in American Literature and Culture, 1839-1929.” DAI 66/03 (2005): 1000-A. (Doct. diss., Rice University, 2005)

Ethnicity, race, and gender

Sears, Cornelia. Africa in the American Mind, 1870-1955: A Study in Mythology, Ideology and the Reconstruction of Race. DAI 59/03 (1998): 934-A. (Doct. diss., University of California at Berkeley, 1997)

Ethnicity, race, and gender

Smedley, Audrey. Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview. 340pp. Boulder: Westview, 1993.

Ethnicity, race, and gender:

Biographical

Ballard, Barbara J. “Nineteenth-Century Theories of Race, the Concept of Correspondences, and Images of Blacks in the Antislavery Writings of Douglass, Stowe, and Browne. DAI 53/11 (1993): 3959-A. (Doct. diss., Yale University, 1992)

Ethnicity, race, and gender:

Biographical

Horsman, Reginald. Josiah Nott of Mobile: Southerner, Physician, and Racial Theorist. (Southern Biography Series). 348pp. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987.

ETHNICITY, RACE, AND GENDER:

Sources

Bernasconi, Robert, editor. American Theories of Polygenesis. 7 vols. Bristol, UK: Thoemmes, 2002. 

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Eugenics

SUBJECT

CITATION

EUGENICS

Durst, Dennis Lee. “‘No Legacy Annuls Heredity from God’: Evangelical Social Reformers and the North American Eugenics Movement.” DAI 63/04 (2002): 1399-A. (Doct. diss., St. Louis University, 2002) 

Eugenics

Rafter, Nicole Hahn, editor. White Trash: The Eugenic Family Studies, 1877-1919. 382pp. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988.

Eugenics

Stolba, Christine Allison. “‘A corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit’: Religion and the American Eugenics Movement. DAI 60/06 (1999): 2198-A. (Doct. diss., Emory University, 1999)

EUGENICS:

Biographical

Greenwald, Brian H. “Alexander Graham Bell through the Lens of Eugenics, 1883-1922.” DAI 66/12 (2006): 4502-A. (Doct. diss., George Washington University, 2006)

EUGENICS:

Illinois

Rembis, Michael Allen. “Breeding Up the Human Herd: Gender, Power, and Eugenics in Illinois, 1890-1940.” DAI 64/05 (2003): 1821-A. (Doct. diss., University of Arizona, 2003) 

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Evolution

SUBJECT

CITATION

Evolution

Caudill, Charles Edward. “The Evolution of an Idea: Darwin in the American Press, 1860-1925. DAI 47/08 (1987): 2783-A. (Doct. diss., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1986)

Evolution

Caudill, Edward. Darwinism in the Press: The Evolution of an Idea. 161pp. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 1989.

Evolution

Gerson, Elihu M. “The American System of Research: Evolutionary Biology, 1890-1950. DAI 59/07 (1999): 2745-A. (Doct. diss., University of Chicago, 1998)

Evolution

Greenfield, Theodore J. “Variation, Heredity, and Scientific Explanation in the Evolutionary Theories of Four American Neo-Lamarckians, 1867-1897. DAI 47/06 (1986): 2294-A. (Doct. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1986)

Evolution

Numbers, Ronald L. Darwinism Comes to America. 216pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Evolution

Numbers, Ronald L. and John Stenhouse. Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender. 300pp. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Evolution

Webb, George Ernest. The Evolution Controversy in America. 297pp. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.

Evolution

Wilson, R. Jackson, editor. Darwinism and the American Intellectual: An Anthology. 2nd ed. 167pp. Chicago: Dorsey Press, 1989.

Evolution:

Biographical

Magnus, David C. “In Defense of Natural History: David Star Jordan and the Role of Isolation in Evolution. DAI 54/09 (1993): 3470-A. (Doct. diss., Stanford University, 1993)

Evolution:

Institutional

Gundlach, Bradley John. “The Evolution Question at Princeton, 1845-1929. DAI 56/05 (1995): 1838-A. (Doct. diss., University of Rochester, 1995)

EVOLUTION:

Tennessee

Israel, Charles. Before Scopes: Evangelicalism, Education, and Evolution in Tennessee, 1870-1925. 252pp. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004.

 

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