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Environmental histories of the First World War /

This anthology surveys the ecological impacts of the First World War. Editors Richard P. Tucker, Tait Keller, J. R. McNeill and Martin Schmidt bring together a list of experienced authors who explore the global interactions of states, armies, civilians and the environment during the war. They show h...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Tucker, Richard P., 1938- (Editor), Keller, Tait (Editor), McNeill, John Robert (Editor), Schmid, Martin, 1974- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918 > Environmental aspects.
World War, 1914-1918 > Influence.
World War, 1914-1918 > Food supply.
Famines > History > 20th century.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Table of Contents:
  • Mobilizing nature for the First World War : an introduction / Tait Keller
  • Europe and North America : battle zones and support systems
  • Beans are bullets, potatoes are powder : food as a weapon during the First World War / Alice Weinreb
  • Dissolution before dissolution : the crisis of the wartime food regime in Austria-Hungary / Ernst Langthaler
  • The chemist's war : Edgewood Arsenal, the First World War, and the birth of a militarized environment / Gerard J. Fitzgerald
  • War's global reach : extracting natural resources
  • 'The mineral sanction' : the great war and the strategic role of natural resources / Roy MacLeod
  • Something new under the fog of war : the First World War and the debut of oil on the global stage / Dan Tamir
  • The First World War and the beginning of overfishing in the North Sea / Ingo Heidbrink
  • The political and natural eco-footprint of the First World War in East Asia : environments, systems building, and the Japanese Empire, 1914-1923 / Jack Patrick Hayes
  • The Middle East and Africa : ecosystems, refugees and famine
  • "Make them hated in all of the Arab countries" : France, famine and the creation of Lebanon / Graham Auman Pitts
  • Why are modern famines so deadly? The First World War in Syria and Palestine / Zachary J. Foster
  • Starving for someone else's fight : the First World War and food insecurity in the African Red Sea region / Steven Serels
  • Forest policy, wildlife destruction, and disease ecologies : environmental consequences of the First World War in Africa / Thaddeus Sunseri
  • The long aftermath : environmentalism and memory
  • Disruption and reorganization : international preservation networks and the First World War / Raf De Bont and Anna-Katharina Wöbse
  • Memories in mud : the environmental legacy of the Great War / Frank Uekötter.