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 envir...

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Main Author Chris Pearson, Peter Coates, Tim Cole, Chris Pearson, Peter Coates, Tim Cole
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London Bloomsbury Publishing 2010
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Bloomsbury
Edition1
Subjects
HISTORY
Military geography
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Contents -- 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 -- 4 The Shoeburyness Complex: Military Spatial Production and the Problem of the Civilian Body -- 5 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 -- 10 Fragmented Histories: Science, Environment and Monument Building at the Trinity Site, 1945-1995 -- 11 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