Staff View
The deserts in the distance

Descriptive

TitleInfo
Title
The deserts in the distance
SubTitle
Spanish and American frontiers in the 17th-19th century southwest, with a focus on environmental factors regarding Anglicization and incorporation in the mid 19th century
Name (type = personal)
NamePart (type = family)
Halprin
NamePart (type = given)
Franklin R.
DisplayForm
Franklin Halprin
Role
RoleTerm (authority = RULIB)
author
Name (type = personal)
NamePart (type = family)
Caplan
NamePart (type = given)
Karen
DisplayForm
Karen Caplan
Affiliation
Advisory Committee
Role
RoleTerm (authority = RULIB)
chair
Name (type = corporate)
NamePart
Rutgers University
Role
RoleTerm (authority = RULIB)
degree grantor
Name (type = corporate)
NamePart
Graduate School - Newark
Role
RoleTerm (authority = RULIB)
school
TypeOfResource
Text
Genre (authority = marcgt)
theses
OriginInfo
DateCreated (qualifier = exact)
2014
DateOther (qualifier = exact); (type = degree)
2014-05
Place
PlaceTerm (type = code)
xx
Language
LanguageTerm (authority = ISO639-2b); (type = code)
eng
Abstract (type = abstract)
What is the role of perceived environmental factors in settlement, development of civilization, and intercultural interactions? This study seeks to determine how climate, natural resources, and other environmental criteria as historical people understood it from the early 17th century to the mid 19th century influenced the unfolding of events in what we now call the American Southwest. It is anachronistic to say that mankind and technology has overcome environmental influences, and conversely it is deterministic to ascribe too much influence of the physical environment on human history. However, the science of the times coupled with social and cultural backgrounds created systems of discourse as to how the environment operated and influenced the individual and society. These beliefs in and of themselves are vital to better understanding the history in question. Delving into personal narratives, diaries, and other contemporary documents, this study draws out the voices of the people and their intellectual systems to lay out a framework of environmental interpretations and their influences on way of life. Spaniards and Anglo-Americans had unique and occasionally overlapping ideas regarding these dynamics. Often times, people were not aware of the role of such abstract conceptual influences in their lives. On other occasions, however, some actors seem to consciously appropriate environmental discourses for personal, societal, political, or even military objectives. In this sense, not just the environment itself but the network of notions as to how people thought it worked and affected them was pivotal with regard to the wide range of events and relationships that occurred in this place and time, including Spanish expansion and later American takeover. Exploring the way people of different backgrounds perceived their environments and their relationship to it, and how this influenced their lives and relationships with others, can help us better understand our history, and our modernity.
Subject (authority = RUETD)
Topic
History
RelatedItem (type = host)
TitleInfo
Title
Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Identifier (type = RULIB)
ETD
Identifier
ETD_5599
PhysicalDescription
Form (authority = gmd)
electronic resource
InternetMediaType
application/pdf
InternetMediaType
text/xml
Extent
iv, 99 p.
Note (type = degree)
M.A.
Note (type = bibliography)
Includes bibliographical references
Note (type = vita)
Includes vita
Note (type = statement of responsibility)
by Franklin R. Halprin
Subject (authority = ETD-LCSH)
Topic
Southwest, New--History
Subject (authority = ETD-LCSH)
Topic
Southwest, New--Civilization
Subject (authority = ETD-LCSH)
Topic
Southwest, New--Environmental conditions
RelatedItem (type = host)
TitleInfo
Title
Graduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Identifier (type = local)
rucore10002600001
Location
PhysicalLocation (authority = marcorg); (displayLabel = Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
NjNbRU
Identifier (type = doi)
doi:10.7282/T39G5K2J
Genre (authority = ExL-Esploro)
ETD graduate
Back to the top

Rights

RightsDeclaration (ID = rulibRdec0006)
The author owns the copyright to this work.
RightsHolder (type = personal)
Name
FamilyName
Halprin
GivenName
Franklin
Role
Copyright Holder
RightsEvent
Type
Permission or license
DateTime (encoding = w3cdtf); (qualifier = exact); (point = start)
2014-04-29 10:28:11
AssociatedEntity
Name
Franklin Halprin
Role
Copyright holder
Affiliation
Rutgers University. Graduate School - Newark
AssociatedObject
Type
License
Name
Author Agreement License
Detail
I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
Copyright
Status
Copyright protected
Availability
Status
Open
Reason
Permission or license
Back to the top

Technical

RULTechMD (ID = TECHNICAL1)
ContentModel
ETD
OperatingSystem (VERSION = 5.1)
windows xp
Back to the top
Version 8.5.5
Rutgers University Libraries - Copyright ©2024