War and the environment : military destruction in the modern age /

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"In recent times, the devastation occurring in places like Darfur has focused the world's attention on the intertwined relationship of military conflict and the environment -- and the attendant human suffering. In War and the Environment, eleven scholars explore, among other topics, the en...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Closmann, Charles E. (Charles Edwin), 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 125.
Subjects:
War > Environmental aspects > History.
Armed Forces > Environmental aspects > History.
Postwar reconstruction > Environmental aspects > History.
Guerre > Aspect de l'environnement > Histoire.
Forces armées > Aspect de l'environnement > Histoire.
Reconstruction d'après-guerre > Aspect de l'environnement > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Postwar reconstruction > Environmental aspects
Armed Forces > Environmental aspects
War > Environmental aspects
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Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: landscapes of peace, environments of war / Charles Edwin Closmann
  • America's military footprint: environmental implications of the U.S. army since 1789 / J.R. McNeill and David S. Painter
  • Wood for war: the legacy of human conflict on the Philippine forests, 1565-1945 / Greg Bankoff
  • Devouring the land: Sherman's 1864-65 campaigns / Lisa M. Brady
  • Environments of death: trench warfare on the western front 1914-18 / Dorothee Brantz
  • Total war? administering Germany's environment in two world wars / Frank Uekötter
  • World War II and the axis of disease: battling malaria in twentieth-century Italy / Marcus Hall
  • Birds on the home front: wildlife conservation in the western United States during World War II / Robert Wilson
  • Creating the natural fortress: landscape, resistance, and memory in the Vercors, France / Chris Pearson
  • Wartime destruction and the postwar cityscape / Jeffry M. Diefendorf.

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