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Title War and the environment : military destruction in the modern age / edited by Charles E. Closmann
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Williams-Ford Texas A & M University military history series ; no. 125
Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 125.
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
Summary "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 environmental ravages of trench warfare in World War I, the exploitation of Philippine forests for military purposes from the Spanish colonial period through 1945, William Tecumseh Sherman's scorched-earth tactics during his 1864-65 March to the Sea, and the effects of wartime policy upon U.S. and German conservation practices during World War II"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject War -- Environmental aspects -- History
Armed Forces -- Environmental aspects -- History
Postwar reconstruction -- Environmental aspects -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
Postwar reconstruction -- Environmental aspects
Armed Forces -- Environmental aspects
War -- Environmental aspects
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Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Closmann, Charles E. (Charles Edwin), 1957-
LC no. 2008051134
ISBN 9781603443807
1603443800