TY - BOOK AU - Tucker, Richard P. AU - Tucker,Richard P. AU - Keller,Tait AU - McNeill,John Robert AU - Schmid,Martin TI - Environmental histories of the First World War SN - 9781108453196 AV - D523 .E68 2018 U1 - 940.31 TUC-R 23 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Environmental aspects KW - Influence KW - Food supply KW - Famine KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Nature KW - Effect of human beings on N1 - 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 ER -