War and the Environment

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-1-60344-115-5
Verlag: Texas A&M University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series

In recent times, the devastation occurring in places like Darfur has focused the world's attention on the intertwined relationship of military conflict and the environment - and the attendant human suffering. In ""War and the Environment"", eleven scholars explore, among other topics, the environmental ravages of trench warfare in World War I, the exploitation of Philippine forests for military purposes from the Spanish colonial period through 1945, William Tecumseh Sherman's scorched-earth tactics during his 1864-65 March to the Sea, and the effects of wartime policy upon U.S. and German conservation practices during World War II.

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Über Autor(innen)

CHARLES E. CLOSMANN is assistant professor of history at the University of North Florida and a former research fellow at the German Historical Institute. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida.