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Title:

Natural enemy, natural ally : toward an environmental history of warfare / edited by Richard P. Tucker and Edmund Russell.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Oregon State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

vii, 280 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

War--Environmental aspects.

Other Authors:

Tucker, Richard P., 1938-
Russell, Edmund, 1957-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The impact of warfare on the natural world: a historical survey / Richard P. Tucker -- War, the military, and the environment : central India, 1560-1820 / Stewart Gordon -- "African warfare in all its ferocity" : changing military landscapes and precolonial and colonial conflict in Southern Africa / Roger S. Levine -- Gettysburg and the organic nature of the American Civil War / Mark Fiege -- The world wars and the globalization of timber cutting / Richard P. Tucker -- "Speaking of annihilation" : mobilizing for war against human and insect enemies, 1914-1945 / Edmund Russell -- War, an ecological alternative to peace? : indirect impacts of the World War II on the Finnish environment / Simo Laakkonen -- Landscapes in the dark valley : toward an environmental history of wartime Japan / William M. Tsutsui -- Pests and disease in the Pacific war : crossing the line / Judith A. Bennett -- Compromising on conservation : World War II and American leadership in whaling diplomacy / Kurk Dorsey.

ISBN:

9780870710476 (alk. paper)
0870710478 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54989957

LCCN:

2004007872

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)