The long shadows : a global environmental history of the Second World War /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Laakkonen, Simo (Editor, Contributor), Tucker, Richard P., 1938- (Editor, Contributor), Vuorisalo, Timo Olavi (Editor, Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2017.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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 Wøbse
  • Part IV. Conclusions
  • Hypotheses: World War II and its shadows / Simo Laakkonen, Richard P. Tucker, and Timo Vuorisalo.