War and Nature
Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring
Series: Studies in Environment and History;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 12 February 2001
- ISBN 9780521790031
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 235x159x28 mm
- Weight 595 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
This 2001 book shows the intersection of chemical warfare and pest control in the twentieth century.
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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 2001 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.
'An engrossing, unusual social narrative, documenting the close ties between chemical weapons development and 'peaceful' applications in insect warfare.' Kirkus
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. The long reach of war (1914-17); 3. Joining the chemists' war (1917-18); 4. Chemical warfare in peace (1918-37); 5. Minutemen in peace (1918-37); 6. Total war (1936-43); 7. Annihilation (1943-5); 8. Planning for peace and war (1944-5); 9. War comes home (1945-50); 10. Arms races in the Cold War (1950-8); 11. Backfires (1958-63); 12. Epilogue.
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