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Title War and the environment : military destruction in the modern age / edited by Charles E. Closmann.

Publication Info. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (vi, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Williams-Ford Texas A & M University military history series ; no. 125
Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 125.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject War -- Environmental aspects -- History.
War -- Environmental aspects.
History.
Armed Forces -- Environmental aspects -- History.
Armed Forces -- Environmental aspects.
Postwar reconstruction -- Environmental aspects -- History.
Postwar reconstruction -- Environmental aspects.
Postwar reconstruction.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Closmann, Charles E. (Charles Edwin), 1957-
Other Form: Print version: War and the environment. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008051134
ISBN 9781603443807 (electronic book)
1603443800 (electronic book)
9781603441155 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1603441158 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9781603441698 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1603441697 (paperback ; alkaline paper)