War and the environment military destruction in the modern age / edited by Charles E. Closmann.

Other author Closmann, Charles E. (Charles Edwin), 1957-
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoCollege Station : Texas A&M University Press,
Descriptionvi, 210 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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SeriesWilliams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 125
Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series no. 125. ^A1016534
Contents Introduction: landscapes of peace, environments of war / Charles Edwin Closmann -- America's military footprint: environmental implications of the U.S. army since 1789 / J. R. McNeill and David S. Painter -- Wood for war: the legacy of human conflict on the Philippine forests, 1565-1945 / Greg Bankoff -- Devouring the land: Sherman's 1864-65 campaigns / Lisa M. Brady -- Environments of death: trench warfare on the western front 1914-18 / Dorothee Brantz -- Total war? administering Germany's environment in two world wars / Frank Uekötter -- World War II and the axis of disease: battling malaria in twentieth-century Italy / Marcus Hall -- Birds on the home front: wildlife conservation in the western United States during World War II / Robert Wilson -- Creating the natural fortress: landscape, resistance, and memory in the Vercors, France / Chris Pearson -- Wartime destruction and the postwar cityscape / Jeffry M. Diefendorf.
General noteIncludes index.
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LCCN 2008051134
ISBN9781603441155 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1603441158 (cloth : alk. paper)