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Author Edgington, Ryan H.

Title Range wars : the environmental contest for White Sands Missile Range / Ryan H. Edgington.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource
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Physical Medium polychrome
Summary "Established in south-central New Mexico at the end of World War II, White Sands Missile Range is the largest overland military reserve in the western hemisphere. It was the site of the first nuclear explosion, the birthplace of the American space program, and the primary site for testing U.S. missile capabilities. In this environmental history of White Sands Missile Range, Ryan H. Edgington traces the uneasy relationships between the military, the federal government, local ranchers, environmentalists, state game and fish personnel, biologists and ecologists, state and federal political figures, hunters, and tourists after World War II--as they all struggled to define and productively use the militarized western landscape. Environmentalists, ranchers, tourists, and other groups joined together to transform the meaning and uses of this region, challenging the authority of the national security state to dictate the environmental and cultural value of a rural American landscape. As a result, White Sands became a locus of competing geographies informed not only by the far-reaching intellectual, economic, and environmental changes wrought by the Cold War but also by regional history, culture, and traditions"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Seeds of Discontent -- Atomic Attractions -- Boundaries -- A Consumer's Landscape -- Range Wars -- Natural Security States.
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Subject White Sands Missile Range (N.M.) -- Environmental conditions.
White Sands Missile Range (N.M.) -- History.
Land use -- Environmental aspects -- New Mexico -- White Sands Missile Range -- History.
Land use -- Environmental aspects.
New Mexico -- White Sands Missile Range.
History.
Land use.
Land use -- Political aspects -- New Mexico -- White Sands Missile Range -- History.
Land use -- Political aspects.
Social conflict -- New Mexico -- White Sands Missile Range -- History.
Social conflict.
Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Environmental aspects -- New Mexico -- White Sands Missile Range -- History.
Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Environmental aspects.
Nuclear weapons -- Testing.
Landscape protection -- New Mexico -- White Sands Missile Range -- History.
Landscape protection.
Environmental policy -- United States -- History.
Environmental policy.
United States.
United States -- Military policy.
Military policy.
Militarism -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Militarism -- Environmental aspects.
Militarism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Edgington, Ryan H. Range wars 9780803238442 (DLC) 2013048673 (OCoLC)861955628
ISBN 9780803255623 (electronic book)
0803255624 (electronic book)
1306785111 (electronic book)
9781306785112 (electronic book)
0803255632
9780803255630
9780803238442
0803238444
9780803255357
0803255357
9780803255630 (ePub)
9780803255647 (mobi)
Standard No. ebc1690818