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The long shadows : a global environmental history of the Second World War / edited by Simo Laakkonen, Richard P. Tucker, Timo Vuorisalo.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Environmental aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Influence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Corvallis, Oregon : Oregon State University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- The Long Shadows is the first book-length work to offer global perspectives on the environmental history of World War II.Based on long-term research, the selected articles represent the best available studies in different fields and countries.With contributions touching on Europe, America, Asia, and Africa, the book has a truly global approach.
- Contents:
- Part I. Introduction
- The long shadows / Simo Laakkonen, Richard P. Tucker, and Timo Vuorisalo
- Polemosphere: the war, society, and the environment / Simo Laakkonen
- World War II: a global perspective / Evan Mawdsley
- Part II. Social and environmental impacts of the war
- Environmental policies of the Third Reich / Simo Laakkonen
- The costs of the war for the Soviet Union / Paul Josephson
- Conceptualizing wartime flood and famine in China / Micah S. Muscolino
- Environmental scars in northeastern India and Burma / Richard P. Tucker
- Hawai'i: before and after Pearl Harbor / Carol MacLennan
- The great louse war: control of typhus fever / Helene Laurent
- Perspectives on the acoustic ecology of war / Outi Ampuja
- Part III. Resource extraction and the war
- Aluminum's permanent revolution / Matthew Evenden
- Crisis utilization in Mexican forests / Christopher R. Boyer
- Food disruption and agricultural policy in Tanganyika / Gregory Maddox
- Japanese imperialism and marine resources / William M. Tsutsui and Timo Vuorisalo
- Opening the circumpolar Arctic world / Ilmo Massa and Alla Bolotova
- International conservation after the two world wars / Anna-Katharina Wobse
- Part IV. Conclusions
- Hypotheses: World War II and its shadows / Simo Laakkonen, Richard P. Tucker, and Timo Vuorisalo.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-87071-880-0
- OCLC:
- 986606679
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