Proving Grounds - Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, Environmental Impact of

Edwin A. Martini is professor of history at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty and Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975¿2000. The contributors are Yooil Bae, Leisl Carr Childers, Brandon C. Davis, Heejin Han, David G. Havlick, Katherine M. Keirns, Neil Oatsvall, Jennifer Liss Ohayon, and Daniel Weimer.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Defending the Nation, Protecting the Land

2. Weather, Otters, and Bombs

3. Incident at Galisteo

4. "This Is Really Bad Stuff Buried Here"

5. The War on Plants

6. Addressing Environmental Risks and Mobilizing Democracy?

7. Reality Revealed

8. A Wildlife Insurgency

9. Restoration and Meaning on Former Military Lands in the United States

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index

About the author

Edwin A. Martini is professor of history at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty and Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000. The contributors are Yooil Bae, Leisl Carr Childers, Brandon C. Davis, Heejin Han, David G. Havlick, Katherine M. Keirns, Neil Oatsvall, Jennifer Liss Ohayon, and Daniel Weimer.

Product details

• Authors: Edwin A. Martini, Edwin A. (EDT) Martini
• Assisted by: Edwin A Martini (Editor), Edwin A. Martini (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780295741710
• ISBN: 978-0-295-74171-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Donald R. Ellegood Internation; Donald R. Ellegood Internation; Proving Grounds
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous