The long shadows : a global environmental history of the Second World War /

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The Long Shadows is the first book to offer global perspectives on the environmental history of World War II. Based on long-term research, the selected essays represent the best available studies in different fields and countries. With contributions touching on Europe, America, Asia, and Africa, the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Laakkonen, Simo (Editor , Contribuidor), Tucker, Richard P., 1938- (Editor , Contribuidor), Vuorisalo, Timo Olavi (Editor , Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, [2017]
Temas:
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Environmental aspects.
World War, 1939-1945 > Influence.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Influence.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Introduction
  • The long shadows / Simo Laakkonen, Richard P. Tucker, and Timo Vuorisalo
  • Polemosphere: the war, society, and the environment / Simo Laakkonen
  • World War II: a global perspective / Evan Mawdsley
  • Part II. Social and environmental impacts of the war
  • Environmental policies of the Third Reich / Simo Laakkonen
  • The costs of the war for the Soviet Union / Paul Josephson
  • Conceptualizing wartime flood and famine in China / Micah S. Muscolino
  • Environmental scars in northeastern India and Burma / Richard P. Tucker
  • Hawai'i: before and after Pearl Harbor / Carol MacLennan
  • The great louse war: control of typhus fever / Helene Laurent
  • Perspectives on the acoustic ecology of war / Outi Ampuja
  • Part III. Resource extraction and the war
  • Aluminum's permanent revolution / Matthew Evenden
  • Crisis utilization in Mexican forests / Christopher R. Boyer
  • Food disruption and agricultural policy in Tanganyika / Gregory Maddox
  • Japanese imperialism and marine resources / William M. Tsutsui and Timo Vuorisalo
  • Opening the circumpolar Arctic world / Ilmo Massa and Alla Bolotova
  • International conservation after the two world wars / Anna-Katharina Wøbse
  • Part IV. Conclusions
  • Hypotheses: World War II and its shadows / Simo Laakkonen, Richard P. Tucker, and Timo Vuorisalo.

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