Environmental Histories of the First World War (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Tucker, Richard P.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108602495
• Artikelnr.: 54038029

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; 1.
Mobilizing nature for World War I: an introduction Tait Keller; Part I.
Europe and North America: Battle Zones and Support Systems: 2. Beans are
bullets, potatoes are powder: food as a weapon during World War I Alice
Weinreb; 3. Dissolution before dissolution: the crisis of the wartime food
regime in Austria-Hungary Ernst Langthaler; 4. The chemist's war: Edgewood
Arsenal, World War I, and the birth of a militarized environment Gerard J.
Fitzgerald; Part II. War's Global Reach: Extracting Natural Resources: 5.
'The mineral sanction': the Great War and the strategic role of natural
resources Roy MacLeod; 6. Something new under the fog of war: World War I
and the debut of oil on the global stage Dan Tamir; 7. World War I and the
beginning of over-fishing in the North Sea Ingo Heidbrink; 8. The political
and natural eco-footprint of World War I in East Asia: environments,
systems building, and the Japanese Empire, 1914-23 Jack Patrick Hayes; Part
III. The Middle East and Africa: Ecosystems, Refugees and Famine: 9. 'Make
them hated in all of the Arab countries': France, famine and the creation
of Lebanon Graham Auman Pitts; 10. Why are modern famines so deadly? World
War I in Syria and Palestine Zachary J. Foster; 11. Starving for someone
else's fight: World War I and food insecurity in the African Red Sea Region
Steven Serels; 12. Forest policy, wildlife destruction, and disease
ecologies: environmental consequences of World War I in Africa Thaddeus
Sunseri; Part IV. The Long Aftermath: Environmentalism and Memory: 13.
Disruption and reorganization: international preservation networks and
World War I Raf De Bont and Anna-Katharina Wöbse; 14. Memories in mud: the
environmental legacy of the Great War Frank Uekötter.