Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Environmental Histories of the First World War

Av Richard P. Tucker, Tait Keller, J. R. McNeill, Martin Schmid

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Beskrivning

This anthology surveys the ecological impacts of the First World War. Editors Richard P. Tucker, Tait Keller, J. R. McNeill, and Martin Schmidt bring together a list of experienced authors who explore the global interactions of states, armies, civilians, and the environment during the war. They show how the First World War ushered in enormous environmental changes, including the devastation of rural and urban environments, the consumption of strategic natural resources such as metals and petroleum, the impact of war on urban industry, and the disruption of agricultural landscapes leading to widespread famine. Taking a global perspective, Environmental Histories of the First World War presents the ecological consequences of the vast destructive power of the new weaponry and the close collaboration between militaries and civilian governments taking place during this time, showing how this war set trends for the rest of the century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2018-08-23
Mått: 153 x 228 x 18 mm
Vikt: 470 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 324
Förlag: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108453196

Utforska kategorier

Militärhistoria

Mer om författaren

Richard P. Tucker is Adjunct Professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World (2000) and numerous publications on the environmental history of warfare. Tait Keller is an Associate Professor of History and former Director of the Environmental Studies and Sciences Program at Rhodes College. His publications include Apostles of the Alps (2016) and articles in journals such as Annales and Environmental History. He is a Fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. J. R. McNeill is Professor of History and University Professor at Georgetown University and author of prize-winning books such as Mosquito Empires (Cambridge, 2010) and Something New under the Sun (2000). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and served as President of the American Society for Environmental History (2011-13) and of the American Historical Association (2019). Martin Schmid is Associate Professor for Environmental History and Deputy Director (2016-17) at the Institute of Social Ecology of Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt in Vienna. He is founding member of the Center for Environmental History (ZUG), and served as its director in 2010-11. He was a 2011 Fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich.

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'Anyone who wants to learn about the global ecological catastrophe that the First World War precipitated must read this book. It is an eye-opener and a disturbing reminder that those who set the Great War in motion had no idea as to what they had let loose on the world.' Jay Winter, author of War beyond Words: Languages of Remembrances from the Great War to the Present

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