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Environmental histories of the Cold War

Title
Environmental histories of the Cold War / edited by J.R. McNeill, Corinna R. Unger.
ISBN
9780521762441 (hardback)
0521762448 (hardback)
Published
Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Physical Description
xi, 362 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 29, 2013
Series
Publications of the German Historical Institute.
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Bibliography
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.
Also listed under
McNeill, John Robert.
Unger, Corinna R.
German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
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