Warren Dean papers
Scope and Contents
The Warren Dean collection consists of photocopied reports, articles, reprints, correspondence, and a typescript relating to the botany, economy, and history of rubber-producing trees of Brazil, especially Hevea brasiliensis. An associated collection of journals, reports, and trade publications was removed and integrated into the collection of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, a bibliography of which is included in the collection below.
Dates
- 1964 - 1987
Biographical / Historical
Warren Dean (1932-1994) was an environmental historian whose publications on the socioeconomy of Brazil and the destruction of its rain forest received wide acclaim as models of critical environmental history. Dr. Dean received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida and was William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History at New York University in New York City. He studied at the New York Botanical Garden in the 1980s in research for The Struggle for Rubber in Brazil (1987). He was also a visiting professor at the Universities of Sao Paulo and Parana.
Extent
8.0 Linear Inches (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Other Finding Aids
- Title
- Warren Dean papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- David Rose
- Date
- June 2001
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Originally processed by David Rose, Archives Assistant, June 2001. Converted to EAD in July 2006 by Kathleene Konkle under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH-PA 50678-04).
Revision Statements
- July 2006: Converted to EAD by Kathleene Konkle.
Repository Details
Part of the The Archives of the New York Botanical Garden Repository
New York Botanical Garden, Mertz Library
2900 Southern Boulevard
Bronx NY 10458 United States
ssinon@nybg.org