War and the environment military destruction in the modern age / edited by Charles E. Closmann. - first edition. - College Station : Texas A and M University Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (vi, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps - Williams-Ford Texas A & M University military history series ; no. 125 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: landscapes of peace, environments of war / America's military footprint: environmental implications of the U.S. army since 1789 / Wood for war: the legacy of human conflict on the Philippine forests, 1565-1945 / Devouring the land: Sherman's 1864-65 campaigns / Environments of death: trench warfare on the western front 1914-18 / Total war? administering Germany's environment in two world wars / World War II and the axis of disease: battling malaria in twentieth-century Italy / Birds on the home front: wildlife conservation in the western United States during World War II / Creating the natural fortress: landscape, resistance, and memory in the Vercors, France / Wartime destruction and the postwar cityscape / Charles Edwin Closmann -- J.R. McNeill and David S. Painter -- Greg Bankoff -- Lisa M. Brady -- Dorothee Brantz -- Frank Uekötter -- Marcus Hall -- Robert Wilson -- Chris Pearson -- Jeffry M. Diefendorf.



9781603443807


War--Environmental aspects--History.
Armed Forces--Environmental aspects--History.
Postwar reconstruction--Environmental aspects--History.


Electronic Books.

TD195 / .W373 2009