Title: War and the environment : military destruction in the modern age /
Authors: Closmann, Charles E. 1957-
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: War Environmental aspects History.; Armed Forces Environmental aspects History.; Postwar reconstruction Environmental aspects History.
Abstract: "In recent times, the devastation occurring in places like Darfur has focused the world's attention on the intertwined relationship of military conflict and the environment -- and the attendant human suffering. In War and the Environment, 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"--Publisher's description.
Contents: 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 Uekötter -- 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.