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Showing 1 to 20 of 130 for “"Environmental History"”.
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An environmental history : William Cameron Park, Waco, Texas.
Cameron Park is a 416-acre municipal park located at the confluence of the Brazos and Bosque Rivers near downtown Waco, Texas. The results of this project suggest first that the park's ridge-top was completely cleared for grazing during the late 1800s and early 1900s and secondly that release of …
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An environmental history of the Navan area of Co. Armagh
… fluctuations were used in a study of the environmental history of the Navan area, Co. Armagh the site of the ancient 'capital' of Ulster. A tranect of five cores a analyzed from the edge of Loughnashade for pollen and loss-on-ignition . Submerged Pinus stumps from a number of lakes were …
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An Environmental History Of The 19th Century Marquette Iron Range
<p>The history of the Marquette Iron Range in the upper peninsula of Michigan is integrally linked to the environment. The natural features of the Marquette Range defined the mode of production on the Range, and conversely, as human systems became more adept in these modes of production they became …
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An Environmental History of the New Deal in Mississippi and Florida
Keywords: New Deal, Environmental History, United States South, Mississippi, Florida, Gulf Coast, TVA, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, landscape, lumber industry, CCC, WPA, state parks. The 1930s represented a time of distinct and encompassing change in the United States South. In assessing the impact …
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From sweetwater to seawater: An environmental history of Narragansett Bay, 1636--1849
<p>This dissertation examines environmental change on and around Narragansett Bay from first European settlement in 1636 to the dissolution of the Blackstone Canal Company in 1849. It uses one of the largest estuaries on the East Coast and one situated at the heart of early English settlement in …
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The North Woods: An Environmental History from the Pleistocene to the Pyrocene
… simple premise: that colonization both produced environmental change and that those changes simultaneously contributed to colonization. Focusing on the forested region of the western Great Lakes known as the North Woods, this dissertation argues that examining colonization through environmental …
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An environmental history of the Cederberg : changing climate, land use and vegetation patterns
… of archival sources, repeat photography and oral history. A zonal theme was adopted to analyse the environment of the Cederberg, and land use and landscape changes of the lowlands, midlands and uplands are examined independently. Results show that the Cederberg lowlands have experienced the …
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The Environmental History of the National Grid The Process of Electrification: Infrastructure and Influence
… from historians, especially regarding its environmental and social impacts and the fuel it consumed. This work tells the story of electricity as a commodity; initially sold by hundreds of individual companies operating generating stations providing a local electrical supply, and how this …
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Cleaning Up After Sex: An Environmental History of Contraceptives in the United States, 1873—2010
… in my dissertation, 'Cleaning Up After Sex: An Environmental History of Contraceptives in the United States, 1873—2010,' that through the processes of contraceptive production, consumption, and disposal, over time, the role of contraceptives in human/nature interactions has become more …
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Social and Environmental History of Elephants and Human Groups in Southeast Zimbabwe, c. 1965-2020
Guided by a multispecies and environmental history framework, this study reconstructs the intertwined histories of humans and elephants in Gonarezhou in the southeast of Zimbabwe over fifty-five years, from 1965 to 2020. It examines how political change, economic priorities, and shifting …
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A Trickle Runs Through It: An Environmental History of the Santa Fe River, New Mexico
… throughout the last four centuries of its history, while emphasizing the role of water in the region's initial survival, subsequent growth, current prosperity, and future challenges. This research meets these objectives by applying geographic methods inherent to GIScience, hydrology, and …
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A Port and Its Hinterland: An Environmental History of Izmir in the Late-Ottoman Period
… late Ottoman period through the perspective of environmental history. In this period, roughly in the decades between the 1840s and 1890s, Izmir, thanks to the human and natural resources in its hinterland, grew rapidly in export trade and evolved into a gateway city, linking the fertile Western …
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Traces on the Peruvian Shore: The Environmental History of the Fishmeal Boom in Chimbote, Peru, 1940-1980
This dissertation chronicles the changes Chimbote underwent and scrutinizes the reasons for those changes, arguing that, rather than focusing on the decline of the ecosystem, there was in fact a new ecosystem produced. This new ecosystem emerged as a result of the actions of the major players in …
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Fishing for Food and Fodder: The Transnational Environmental History of Humboldt Current Fisheries in Peru and Chile since 1945
<p>This dissertation explores the history of industrial fisheries in the Humboldt Current marine ecosystem where workers, scientists, and entrepreneurs transformed Peru and Chile into two of the top five fishing nations after World War II. As fishmeal industrialists raided the oceans for proteins …
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