War and the environment : military destruction in the modern age /
War and the environment : military destruction in the modern age /
edited by Charles E. Closmann.
- 1st ed.
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2009.
- vi, 210 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 125 .
- Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 125. .
Includes index.
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 UekoÌtter -- 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.
9781603441155 (cloth : alk. paper) 1603441158 (cloth : alk. paper)
2008051134
War--Environmental aspects--History.
Armed Forces--Environmental aspects--History.
Postwar reconstruction--Environmental aspects--History.
TD195.W29 / W37 2009
363.7
Includes index.
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 UekoÌtter -- 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.
9781603441155 (cloth : alk. paper) 1603441158 (cloth : alk. paper)
2008051134
War--Environmental aspects--History.
Armed Forces--Environmental aspects--History.
Postwar reconstruction--Environmental aspects--History.
TD195.W29 / W37 2009
363.7