Environmental histories of the Cold War / edited by J.R. McNeill, Corinna R. Unger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McNeill, John Robert, editor.

Unger, Corinna R., editor.

German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.), issuing body.

Series:

Publications of the German Historical Institute.

Publications of the German Historical Institute

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--History--20th century.

Human ecology.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--History--20th century.

Nature.

Cold War--Environmental aspects.

Cold War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 362 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Environmental Histories of the Cold War explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment, ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism. Environmental change accelerated sharply during the Cold War years, and so did environmentalism as both a popular movement and a scientific preoccupation. Most Cold War history entirely overlooks this rise of environmentalism and the crescendo of environmental change. These historical subjects were not only simultaneous but also linked together in ways both straightforward and surprising. The contributors to this book present these connected issues as a global phenomenon, with chapters concerning China, the USSR, Europe, North America, Oceania, and elsewhere. The role of experts as agents and advocates of using the environment as a weapon in the Cold War or, contrastingly, of preventing environmental damage resulting from Cold War politics is also given broad attention.

Contents:

Introduction : The big picture / J.R. McNeill and Corinna R. Unger

War on nature as part of the Cold War : the strategic and ideological roots of environmental degradation in the Soviet Union / Paul Josephson

Creating Cold War climates : the laboratories of American globalism / Matthew Farish

A global contamination zone : early Cold War planning for environmental warfare / Jacob Darwin Hamblin

Environmental diplomacy in the Cold War : weather control, the United States, and India, 1966-1967 / Kristine C. Harper and Ronald E. Doel

Containing communism by impounding rivers : American strategic interests and the global spread of high dams in the early Cold War / Richard P. Tucker

Environmental impacts of nuclear testing in remote Oceania, 1946-1996 / Mark D. Merlin and Ricardo M. Gonzalez

A curtain of silence : Asia's fauna in the Cold War / Greg Bankoff

Against protocol : ecocide, détente, and the question of chemical warfare in Vietnam, 1969-1975 / David Zierler

Environmental crisis and soft politics : détente and the global environment, 1968-1975 / Kai Hünemörder

The new ecology of power : Julian and Aldous Huxley in the Cold War era / R.S. Deese

Atmospheric nuclear weapons testing and the debate on risk knowledge in Cold War America, 1945-1963 / Toshihiro Higuchi

The evolution of environmental problems and environmental policy in China : the interaction of internal and external forces / Bao Maohong

The end of the Cold War : a turning point in environmental history? / Frank Uekoetter.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jul 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-88685-1

1-282-63047-4

9786612630477

0-511-72797-6

0-511-72892-1

0-511-72987-1

0-511-72658-9

0-511-73038-1

0-511-72516-7

OCLC:

761647187