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

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...

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Corporate Authors:Deutsches Historisches Institut Washington DC (Other)
Other Authors:McNeill, John Robert (Editor)
Unger, Corinna R. (Other)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2010
Washington, D.C., 2010
Edition:1. publ
Series:Publications of the German Historical Institute
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Online Access:Book review (H-Net)
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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.