Environmental histories of the Cold War /

Environmental Histories of the Cold War explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment, ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism. Environmental change accelerated sharply during the Cold War years, and so did env...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
Otros Autores: McNeill, John Robert, Unger, Corinna R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : New York : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Colección:Publications of the German Historical Institute.
Temas:
1900-1999
Human ecology > History > 20th century.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > History > 20th century.
Cold War > Environmental aspects.
Êtres humains > Influence sur la nature > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Guerre froide > Aspect de l'environnement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Human ecology
Nature > Effect of human beings on
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The big picture / J.R. McNeill and Corinna R. Unger
  • War on nature as part of the Cold War : the strategic and ideological roots of environmental degradation in the Soviet Union / Paul Josephson
  • Creating Cold War climates : the laboratories of American globalism / Matthew Farish
  • A global contamination zone : early Cold War planning for environmental warfare / Jacob Darwin Hamblin
  • Environmental diplomacy in the Cold War : weather control, the United States, and India, 1966-1967 / Kristine C. Harper and Ronald E. Doel
  • Containing communism by impounding rivers : American strategic interests and the global spread of high dams in the early Cold War / Richard P. Tucker
  • Environmental impacts of nuclear testing in remote Oceania, 1946-1996 / Mark D. Merlin and Ricardo M. Gonzalez
  • A curtain of silence : Asia's fauna in the Cold War / Greg Bankoff
  • Against protocol : ecocide, détente, and the question of chemical warfare in Vietnam, 1969-1975 / David Zierler
  • Environmental crisis and soft politics : détente and the global environment, 1968-1975 / Kai Hünemörder
  • The new ecology of power : Julian and Aldous Huxley in the Cold War era / R.S. Deese
  • Atmospheric nuclear weapons testing and the debate on risk knowledge in Cold War America, 1945-1963 / Toshihiro Higuchi
  • The evolution of environmental problems and environmental policy in China : the interaction of internal and external forces / Bao Maohong
  • The end of the Cold War : a turning point in environmental history? / Frank Uekoetter.

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