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.

Summary

"Environmental Histories of the Cold War explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment, ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism. Environmental change accelerated sharply during the Cold War years, and so did environmentalism as both a popular movement and a scientific preoccupation. Most Cold War history entirely overlooks this rise of environmentalism and the crescendo of environmental change. These historical subjects were not only simultaneous but also linked together in ways both straightforward and surprising. The contributors to this book present these connected issues as a global phenomenon, with chapters concerning China, the USSR, Europe, North America, Oceania, and elsewhere. The role of experts as agents and advocates of using the environment as a weapon in the Cold War or, contrastingly, of preventing environmental damage resulting from Cold War politics is also given broad attention."--

Series Statement

Publications of the German Historical Institute

Uniform Title

Publications of the German Historical Institute.

Subject

• Human ecology > History > 20th century
• Nature > History > 20th century
• Cold War > Environmental aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780521762441 (hardback)
• 0521762448 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2009039051

OCLC

• 456728722
• SCSB-12404150

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library