Environmental histories of the First World War
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press
[2018]
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39774478*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Mobilizing nature for the First World War: an introduction / Tait Keller
- Europe and North America: battle zones and support
- Systems
- Beans are bullets, potatoes are powder: food as a weapon during the First World war / Alice Weinreb
- Dissolution before dissolution: the crisis of the wartime food regime in Austria-Hungary / Ernst Langthaler
- The chemist's war: Edgewood Arsenal, World War I, and the birth of a militarized environment / Gerard J. Fitzgerald
- War's global reach: extracting natural resources
- 'The mineral sanction': the great war and the strategic role of natural
- Resources / Roy MacLeod
- Something new under the fog of war: World War I and the debut of oil on the global stage / Dan Tamir
- World War I and the beginning of over-fishing in the North Sea / Ingo Heidbrink
- The political and natural eco-footprint of World War I in East Asia:
- Environments, systems building, and the Japanese Empire, 1914-1923 / Jack Patrick Hayes
- The Middle East and Africa: ecosystems, refugees and famine
- Make them hated in all of the Arab countries: France, famine and the creation of Lebanon / Graham Auman Pitts
- Why are modern famines so deadly? The First World War in Syria and Palestine / Zachary J. Foster
- Starving for someone else's fight: the First World War and food insecurity in the African Red Sea region / Steven Serels
- Forest policy, wildlife destruction, and disease ecologies: environmental consequences of World War I in Africa / Thaddeus Sunseri
- The long aftermath: environmentalism and memory
- Disruption and reorganization: international preservation networks and World War I / Raf De Bont and Anna-Katharina Wobse
- Memories in mud: the environmental legacy of the Great War / Frank Uekotter.
