War and the environment military destruction in the modern age

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 ra...

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Main Author Closmann, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published College Station Texas A&M University Press 2009
Edition1
SeriesWilliams Ford Texas A&M University military history series
Subjects
Armed Forces
Environmental aspects
Environmental Conservation & Protection
HISTORY
Military
NATURE
Postwar reconstruction
War
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Title Page, Copyright Page CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION. Landscapes of Peace, Environments of War Chapter 1. The Global Environmental Footprint of the U.S. Military, 1789–2003 Chapter 2. Wood for War: The Legacy of Human Conflict on the Forests of the Philippines, 1565–1946 Chapter 3. Devouring the Land: Sherman’s 1864–1865 Campaigns Chapter 4. Environments of Death: Trench Warfare on the Western Front, 1914–1918 Chapter 5. Total War? Administering Germany’s Environment in Two World Wars Chapter 6. World War II and the Axis of Disease: Battling Malaria in Twentieth-Century Italy Chapter 7. Birds on the Home Front: Wildlife Conservation in the Western United States during World War II Chapter 8. Creating the Natural Fortress: Landscape, Resistance, and Memory in the Vercors, France Chapter 9. Wartime Destruction and the Postwar Cityscape CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
  • Intro -- 6.1. Italy, Sardinia, and Corsica / 113