By: Edmund Russell, Donald Worster (Editor), Alfred W. Crosby (Editor)

Hardcover

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While cultural and scholarly traditions have led us to believe that war and control of nature are separate, there are many more similarities than most people might suspect. Tracing the history of chemical warfare and pest control, Edmund Russell shows how war and control of nature coevolved. Ideologically, institutionally, and technologically, the paths of chemical warfare and pest control intersected repeatedly in the twentieth century. War and Nature helps us to understand the impact of war on nature and vice versa, as well as the development of total war, and the rise of the modern environmental movement. Edmund Russell is an assistant professor in the Division of Technology, Culture, and Communication in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. This is his first book.

'An engrossing, unusual social narrative, documenting the close ties between chemical weapons development and 'peaceful' applications in insect warfare.' Kirkus '... ample fodder for a thought-provoking and eminently readable book.' Alastair Hay, Nature '... a thought-provoking and eminently readable book. A sequel might be where much of it went wrong.' Alastair Hay, Nature 'Russell's narrative prose is as engaging as it is informative ... War and Nature will be of valuable source for historians and others seeking a broad cultural history of these specific aspects of chemical research in the twentieth century ...'. Ambix 50 '... the book breaks new ground in its connection of two traditionally disparate fields of inquiry, environmental and military history. It should be required reading in college courses in both security studies and environmental science.' History

Introduction
The long reach of war (1914-1917)
Joining the chemists' war (1917-1918)
Chemical warfare in peace (1918-1937)
Minutemen in peace (1918-1937)
Total war (1936-1943)
Annihilation (1943-1945)
Planning for peace and war (1944-1945)
War comes home (1945-1950)
Arms races in the Cold War (1950-1958)
Backfires (1958-1963)
Epilogue
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ISBN: 9780521790031
ISBN-10: 0521790034
Series: Studies in Environment and History
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 336
Published: 12th February 2001
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 14.122  x 0.965
Weight (kg): 0.599