Format:
1 online resource (222 pages)
ISBN:
9781603443807
Series Statement:
Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series v.125
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT OF THE U.S. MILITARY, 1789- 2003 -- WOOD FOR WAR -- DEVOURING THE LAND -- ENVIRONMENTS OF DEATH -- TOTAL WAR? -- WORLD WAR II AND THE AXIS OF DISEASE -- BIRDS ON THE HOME FRONT -- CREATING THE NATURAL FORTRESS -- WARTIME DESTRUCTION AND THE POSTWAR CITYSCAPE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781603441155
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe War and the environment College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, 2009 ISBN 9781603441155
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1603441158
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781603441698
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1603441697
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Krieg
;
Umweltschaden
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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