War and Nature - Fighting Humans Insects With Chemicals From World War I to Silent

Informationen zum Autor Edmund Russell is the Hall Distinguished Professor of US History at the University of Kansas. He works primarily in environmental history and the history of technology. He is the author of Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and co-editor, with Richard Tucker, of Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward an Environmental History of War (2004). Russell's work has won the Edelstein Prize of the Society for the History of Technology, the Rachel Carson Prize, and the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society for Environmental History and the Forum for the History of Science in America. Zusammenfassung Combining discussion of technology! nature! and warfare! this 2001 book explains the impact of war on nature and vice versa. Using the history of chemical warfare and pest control as a case study! this book helps us understand the development of total war and the rise of the modern environmental movement. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The long reach of war (1914-17); 3. Joining the chemists' war (1917-18); 4. Chemical warfare in peace (1918-37); 5. Minutemen in peace (1918-37); 6. Total war (1936-43); 7. Annihilation (1943-5); 8. Planning for peace and war (1944-5); 9. War comes home (1945-50); 10. Arms races in the Cold War (1950-8); 11. Backfires (1958-63); 12. Epilogue.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Edmund Russell, Edmund (Hall Distinguished Professor of U Russell
• Mitarbeit: Alfred W. Crosby (Herausgeber), Donald Worster (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 12.02.2001
• EAN: 9780521790031
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79003-1
• Seiten: 336
• Serie: Studies in Environment and His
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Ökologie