Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• McNeill, John Robert.
• Unger, Corinna R.
• German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)

Description

xi, 362 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Publications of the German Historical Institute

Uniform Title

Publications of the German Historical Institute.

Subjects

• Human ecology > History > 20th century
• Cold War > Environmental aspects
• Nature > Effect of human beings on > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 14-3031

ISBN

• 9780521762441 (hardback)
• 0521762448 (hardback)

LCCN

2009039051

OCLC

456728722

Title

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

Imprint

Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Series

Publications of the German Historical Institute

Publications of the German Historical Institute.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

McNeill, John Robert.

Unger, Corinna R.

German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)

Research Call Number

JFE 14-3031