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9780521799379

War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521799379

  • ISBN10:

    0521799376

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-02-12
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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War and Nature combines discussion of technology, nature, and warfare to explain the impact of war on nature and vice versa. While cultural and scholarly traditions have led us to think of war and control of nature as separate, this book uses the history of chemical warfare and pest control as a case study to show that war and control of nature coevolved. Ideologically, institutionally, and technologically, the paths of chemical warfare and pest control intersected repeatedly in the twentieth century. These intersections help us understand the development of total war and the rise of the modern environmental movement.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Terms xvii
Introduction
1(16)
The Long Reach of War (1914--1917)
17(20)
Joining the Chemists' War (1917--1918)
37(16)
Chemical Warfare in Peace (1918--1937)
53(21)
Minutemen in Peace (1918--1937)
74(21)
Total War (1936--1943)
95(24)
Annihilation (1943--1945)
119(26)
Planning for Peace and War (1944--1945)
145(20)
War Comes Home (1945--1950)
165(19)
Arms Races in the Cold War (1950--1958)
184(20)
Backfires (1958--1963)
204(25)
Epilogue
229(8)
Primary Sources 237(4)
Abbreviations 241(2)
Notes 243(62)
Author Index 305(4)
Subject Index 309

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