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Nature at War: American Environments and World War II

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This anthology is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens. World War II was a total and global war that involved the extraction, processing, and use of vast quantities of natural resources. The wartime military-industrial complex, the 'Arsenal of Democracy,' experienced tremendous economic growth and technological development, employing resources at a higher intensity than ever before. The war years witnessed transformations in American agriculture; the proliferation of militarized landscapes; the popularization of chemical and pharmaceutical products; a rapid increase in energy consumption and the development of nuclear energy; a remaking of the nation's transportation networks; a shift in population toward the Sunbelt and the West Coast; a vast expansion in the federal government, in conjunction with industrial firms; and the emergence of environmentalism. World War II represented a quantitative and qualitative leap in resource use, with lasting implications for American government, science, society, health, and ecology. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 580g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 227mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Apr 2020
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781108412070

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Thomas Robertson is Executive Director of the United States Educational Foundation (USEF) Fulbright in Kathmandu Nepal and the author of The Malthusian Moment: Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism (2012). Richard P. Tucker is Adjunct Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is co-editor of four multi-author books on the environmental history of the two World Wars. His previous publications include Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World (2000). Nicholas B. Breyfogle is Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is the author/editor of seven volumes including Water History: Readings and Sources (2020) and Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History (2018). Peter Mansoor is the General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair of Military History at The Ohio State University. He is the author of three books and co-editor of three volumes including the award-winning The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions 1941-1945 (1999).

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