The reorganization of pastoral life in the twentieth century was inextricably bound to the rise of industrial agriculture and the forms of resource extraction that accompanied it. The places that witnessed the most sweeping ecological changes, from labor-intensive plantation agr…
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The Amungme and Kamoro managed their environments for thousands of years in what is now Papua, Indonesia. In the late 1960s, seeking foreign capital to boost the nation’s economy, the president of Indonesia signed a contract with Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold, which by 1988 b…
Backcountry skiing has continually grown as a recreational activity since alpine skiers began leaving developed ski area boundaries in the late 1930s. Placing individuals in a less managed, sometimes hostile, winter landscape creates a significant management issue for the U.S. F…
How do militaries attempt to gain control over forbidding landscapes? How do advanced technologies designed to tame hostile environments shape military understandings of the battlefield? This dissertation examines the efforts of counterinsurgent forces to master the geographical…
What historical factors explain an American society that wants both SUVs and clean air, that seeks low fuel prices and high environmental quality? Answering this question means examining the national environmental politics of transportation that emerged and evolved in the United…
This dissertation explains the apparent transformation of people who only two decades before were considered the most isolated and isolationist in the United States into volunteer diplomats and Cold War specialists. It begins with a question of place: how did people who seemed p…
This dissertation takes the relationship between agricultural plants and power as its primary lens on the history of Chinese state-building in the Kham region of eastern Tibet during the early twentieth century. Farming was central to the way nationalist discourse constructed th…
This dissertation examines the history of hunting in India under British colonialism, but with some background on earlier periods and a brief discussion on Nepal and successor states of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh. The study relies on Indian and British sources including private…
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…
Historical and contemporary practices of rural land and forest regulation demonstrate a wide range of interactions among customary and state authorities. In East Timor's Oecusse enclave, autonomous local authorities have long sought to access and to control forest products, incl…