UID:
almafu_9960118430202883
Format:
1 online resource (xxi, 375 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-108-88991-3
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1-108-88926-3
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1-108-30414-1
Content:
This anthology is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens. World War II was a total and global war that involved the extraction, processing, and use of vast quantities of natural resources. The wartime military-industrial complex, the 'Arsenal of Democracy,' experienced tremendous economic growth and technological development, employing resources at a higher intensity than ever before. The war years witnessed transformations in American agriculture; the proliferation of militarized landscapes; the popularization of chemical and pharmaceutical products; a rapid increase in energy consumption and the development of nuclear energy; a remaking of the nation's transportation networks; a shift in population toward the Sunbelt and the West Coast; a vast expansion in the federal government, in conjunction with industrial firms; and the emergence of environmentalism. World War II represented a quantitative and qualitative leap in resource use, with lasting implications for American government, science, society, health, and ecology.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Mar 2020).
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Preface: American environments and the Second World War / Peter Mansoor -- Introduction: Total war and American nature / Thomas Robertson and Richard P. Tucker -- Part 1. New weapons, new spaces -- A war of mobility : transportation, American productive power, and the environment during World War II / Thomas Robertson and Christopher W. Wells -- For land's sake : World War II military land acquisition and alteration / Jean Mansavage -- Part 2. Military materials I (Inorganic) -- Tanks are born underground : mining and World War II / Kent Curtis -- Fueling the American century : establishing the US petroleum imperative / Brian Black -- Part 3. Military materials (Inorganic) -- Soldiers of the soil : labor, nature and American agriculture during World War II / Kendra Smith-Howard -- When meals became weapons : American food in World War II / Kellen Backer -- From field to foxhole : cigarettes and soldiers in World War II / Joel R. Blus --
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Part 4. New landscapes : cities and coasts -- A watery grave? World War II and the environment on the American Gulf Coast / Christopher M. Rein -- World War II and the urban environment : redirecting American politics in Los Angeles and beyond / Sarah S. Elkind -- Part 5. New frontiers : microbes, molecules, and atoms -- Battling insects and infection : American chemical and pharmaceutical expansion during World War II / Martha N. Gardner -- Shattered worlds : place, environment, and militarized landscapes at the dawn of atomic America / Ryan H. Edgington -- Part 6. Conservation -- Total war and the total environment : World War II and the shift from conservation to environmentalism / Thomas Robertson.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-41976-3
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108304146
