Environmental Histories of the Cold War

Name: Environmental Histories of the Cold War
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ISBN: 9780521762441

ISBN-10: 0521762448

ISBN-13: 9780521762441

Edition: 2010

Authors: J. R. McNeill, Corinna R. Unger, D.C.) Staff German Historical Institute (Washington

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Book details

List price: $94.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.29" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

J. R. McNeill is professor of history at Georgetown University. He is the author of "The Mountains of the Mediterranean World" & other works.



List of Figures


Contributors


Introduction: The Big Picture




Science and Planning



War on Nature as Part of the Cold War: The Strategic and Ideological Roots of Environmental Degradation in the Soviet Union




Creating Cold War Climates: The Laboratories of American Globalism




A Global Contamination Zone: Early Cold War Planning for Environmental Warfare




Environmental Diplomacy in the Cold War: Weather Control, the United States, and India, 1966-1967




Containing Communism by Impounding Rivers: American Strategic Interests and the Global Spread of High Dams in the Early Cold War




Geopolitics and the Environment



Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Testing in Remote Oceania, 1946-1996




A Curtain of Silence: Asia's Fauna in the Cold War




Against Protocol: Ecocide, Dï¿½tente, and the Question of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam, 1969-1975




Environmental Crisis and Soft Politics: Dï¿½tente and the Global Environment, 1968-1975




Environmentalisms



The New Ecology of Power: Julian and Aldous Huxley in the Cold War Era




Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Debate on Risk Knowledge in Cold War America, 1945-1963




The Evolution of Environmental Problems and Environmental Policy in China: The Interaction of Internal and External Forces




Epilogue



The End of the Cold War: A Turning Point in Environmental History?



Index