War and the Environment: Military Destruction in the Modern AgeCharles E. Closmann Texas A&M University Press, 14 sep. 2009 - 210 sidor 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. |
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THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT OF THE US MILITARY 17892003 | 10 |
WOOD FOR WAR The Legacy of Human Conflict on the Forests of the Philippines 15651946 | 32 |
DEVOURING THE LAND Shermans 186465 Campaigns | 49 |
ENVIRONMENTS OF DEATH Trench Warfare on the Western Front 191418 | 68 |
TOTAL WAR? Administering Germanys Environment in Two World Wars | 92 |
WORLD WAR II AND THE AXIS OF DISEASE Battling Malaria in TwentiethCentury Italy | 112 |
BIRDS ON THE HOME FRONT Wildlife Conservation in the Western United States during World War II | 132 |
CREATING THE NATURAL FORTRESS Landscape Resistance and Memory in the Vercors France | 150 |
WARTIME DESTRUCTION AND THE POSTWAR CITYSCAPE | 171 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 193 |
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