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Titre(s) : Nature at war [Texte imprimé] : American environments and World War II / edited by Thomas Robertson, Richard P. Tucker, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Peter Mansoor

Publication : Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2020

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXI-375 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"World War II was the largest and most destructive conflict in human history. It was an existential struggle that pitted irreconcilable political systems and ideologies against one another across the globe in a decade of violence unlike any other. There is little doubt today that the United States had to engage in the fighting, especially after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The conflict was, in the words of historians Allan Millett and Williamson Murray, "a war to be won." As the world's largest industrial power, the United States put forth a supreme effort to produce the weapons, munitions, and military formations essential to achieving victory. When the war finally ended, the finale signaled by atomic mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, upwards of 60 million people had perished in the inferno. Of course, the human toll represented only part of the devastation; global environments also suffered greatly. The growth and devastation of the Second World War significantly changed American landscapes as well. The war created or significantly expanded a number of industries, put land to new uses, spurred urbanization, and left a legacy of pollution that would in time create a new term: Superfund site"

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- Autre forme du titre : American environments and World War II

Sujet(s) : Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Aspect économique -- États-Unis  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Environnement -- États-Unis  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Influence  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Nature -- États-Unis -- 1900-1945  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Pollution -- États-Unis -- 1900-1945  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  940.531 0973 (23e éd.) = Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - Histoire sociale, politique, économique - États-Unis  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781108419765. - ISBN 1108419763 (rel.). - ISBN 9781108412070. - ISBN 1108412076. - ISBN 9781108304146 ; (erroné). - ISBN 9781108889919 (erroné)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb47117530t

Notice n° :  FRBNF47117530 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Preface: American environments and the Second World War / Peter Mansoor ; Introduction: Total war and American nature / Thomas Robertson and Richard P. Tucker ; Part 1. New weapons, new spaces ; A war of mobility : transportation, American productive power, and the environment during World War II / Thomas Robertson and Christopher W. Wells ; For land's sake : World War II military land acquisition and alteration / Jean Mansavage ; Part 2. Military materials I (Inorganic) ; Tanks are born underground : mining and World War II / Kent Curtis ; Fueling the American century : establishing the US petroleum imperative / Brian Black ; Part 3. Military materials (Inorganic) ; Soldiers of the soil : labor, nature and American agriculture during World War II / Kendra Smith-Howard ; When meals became weapons : American food in World War II / Kellen Backer ; From field to foxhole : cigarettes and soldiers in World War II / Joel R. Blus
Part 4. New landscapes : cities and coasts ; A watery grave? World War II and the environment on the American Gulf Coast / Christopher M. Rein ; World War II and the urban environment : redirecting American politics in Los Angeles and beyond / Sarah S. Elkind ; Part 5. New frontiers : microbes, molecules, and atoms ; Battling insects and infection : American chemical and pharmaceutical expansion during World War II / Martha N. Gardner ; Shattered worlds : place, environment, and militarized landscapes at the dawn of atomic America / Ryan H. Edgington ; Part 6. Conservation ; Total war and the total environment : World War II and the shift from conservation to environmentalism / Thomas Robertson.