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The invention of ecocide : agent orange, Vietnam, and the scientists who changed the way we think about the environment / David Zierler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zierler, David, 1979-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Extinction (Biology).
- Agent Orange--Health aspects.
- Agent Orange.
- Agent Orange--Toxicology.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Chemical warfare.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Incorporating in-depth interviews, unique archival collections, and recently declassified national security documents, Zierler examines the movement to ban ecocide as it played out amid the rise of a global environmental consciousness and growing disillusionment with the containment policies of the cold war era.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- An etymology of ecocide
- Agent Orange before Vietnam
- Gadgets and guerrillas
- Herbicidal warfare
- Science, ethics, and dissent
- Surveying a catastrope
- Against protocol
- Conclusion: ecocide and international security.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613110404
- 9781283110402
- 1283110407
- 9780820339788
- 0820339784
- OCLC:
- 724045797
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