Nature at War: American Environments and World War II

This anthology is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens. World War II was a total and global war that involved the extraction, processing, and use of vast quantities of natural resources. The wartime military-industrial complex, the 'Arsenal of Democracy, ' experienced tremendous economic growth and technological development, employing resources at a higher intensity than ever before. The war years witnessed transformations in American agriculture; the proliferation of militarized landscapes; the popularization of chemical and pharmaceutical products; a rapid increase in energy consumption and the development of nuclear energy; a remaking of the nation's transportation networks; a shift in population toward the Sunbelt and the West Coast; a vast expansion in the federal government, in conjunction with industrial firms; and the emergence of environmentalism. World War II represented a quantitative and qualitative leap in resource use, with lasting implications for American government, science, society, health, and ecology

Author: Thomas Robertson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/02/2020
Pages: 387
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781108412070

About the Author
Breyfogle, Nicholas B.: - Nicholas B. Breyfogle is Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is the author/editor of seven volumes, including Water History: Readings and Sources (2020) and Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History (2018).Robertson, Thomas: - Thomas Robertson is Executive Director of the United States Educational Foundation (USEF) Fulbright in Kathmandu, Nepal and the author of The Malthusian Moment: Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism (2012).Tucker, Richard P.: - Richard P. Tucker is Adjunct Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is co-editor of four multi-author books on the environmental history of the two World Wars. His previous publications include Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World (2000).
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