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Militarized Landscapes : From Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain.

The black smoke billowing from burning oil wells during the Gulf War of 1990-91 directed media and public attention towards war''s devastating environmental impact. Yet even before the first bomb is dropped, preparation for warfare materially and imaginatively reshapes rural landscapes and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pearson, Chris
Otros Autores: Coates, Peter, Cole, Tim
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010.
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505 0 |a Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Author Biographies; Introduction: Beneath the Camouflage: Revealing Militarized Landscapes; PART I: INHABITING MILITARIZED LANDSCAPES; 1 Military Landscapes / Militære Landskap: The Military Landscape Photography of Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén; 2 Fighting in 'Dante's Inferno': Changing Perceptions of Civil War Combat in the Spotsylvania Wilderness from 1863 to 1864; PART II: COEXISTENT MILITARY AND CIVILIAN LANDSCAPES; 3 Coexistent Landscapes: Military Integration and Civilian Fragmentation. 
505 8 |a 4 The Shoeburyness Complex: Military Spatial Production and the Problem of the Civilian Body5 A Picturesque Ruin? Landscapes of Loss at Tyneham and the Epynt; PART III: THE SURPRISING NATURE OF MILITARIZED LANDSCAPES; 6 Militarization, Conservation and US Base Transformations; 7 A Fairy (Shrimp) Tale of Military Environmentalism: The 'Greening' of Salisbury Plain; 8 The Exquisite Corpses of Nature and History: The Case of the Korean DMZ; PART IV: COMMEMORATING MILITARIZED LANDSCAPES; 9 Addressing the Nature of Gettysburg: 'Addition and Detraction' in Preserving an American Shrine. 
505 8 |a 10 Fragmented Histories: Science, Environment and Monument Building at the Trinity Site, 1945-199511 Ruins, Relics and Restoration: The Afterlife of World War Two American Airfields in England, 1945-2005; Afterword: Militarized Landscapes; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z. 
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