Environmental histories of the First World War /
Tucker, Richard P.
Environmental histories of the First World War / edited by Richard P. Tucker, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Tait Keller, Rhodes College, Memphis, J. R. McNeill, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Martin Schmid, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. - New York Cambridge 2018 - xii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781108453196 9781108429160
2018007006
World War, 1914-1918--Environmental aspects.
World War, 1914-1918--Influence.
World War, 1914-1918--Food supply.
Famine--History--20th century.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
D523 / .E68 2018
940.31 TUC-R
Environmental histories of the First World War / edited by Richard P. Tucker, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Tait Keller, Rhodes College, Memphis, J. R. McNeill, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Martin Schmid, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. - New York Cambridge 2018 - xii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781108453196 9781108429160
2018007006
World War, 1914-1918--Environmental aspects.
World War, 1914-1918--Influence.
World War, 1914-1918--Food supply.
Famine--History--20th century.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
D523 / .E68 2018
940.31 TUC-R
