Book ID: CBB001034124

Environmental Histories of the Cold War (2010)

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McNeill, John R. (Editor)
Unger, Corinna R. (Editor)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: xi + 362 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Krorne, Frederic (2011) Review of "Environmental Histories of the Cold War". Canadian Journal of History (pp. 767-769). unapi

Review Fjaestad, Maja (2012) Review of "Environmental Histories of the Cold War". Technology and Culture (p. 233). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Uekoetter, Frank (2010) The End of the Cold War: A Turning Point in Environmental History?. In: Environmental Histories of the Cold War. unapi

Chapter McNeill, J. R.; Unger, Corinna R. (2010) Introduction: The Big Picture. In: Environmental Histories of the Cold War. unapi

Chapter Josephson, Paul (2010) War on Nature as Part of the Cold War: The Strategic and Ideological Roots of Environmental Degradation in the Soviet Union. In: Environmental Histories of the Cold War. unapi

Chapter Farish, Matthew (2010) Creating Cold War Climates: The Laboratories of American Globalism. In: Environmental Histories of the Cold War. unapi

Chapter Maohong, Bao (2010) The Evolution of Environmental Problems and Environmental Policy in China: The Interaction of Internal and External Forces. In: Environmental Histories of the Cold War. unapi

Chapter Hamblin, Jacob Darwin (2010) A Global Contamination Zone: Early Cold War Planning for Environmental Warfare. In: Environmental Histories of the Cold War. unapi

Chapter Harper, Kristine C.; Doel, Ronald E. (2010) Environmental Diplomacy in the Cold War: Weather Control, the United States, and India, 1966--1967. In: Environmental Histories of the Cold War. unapi

Chapter Tucker, Richard P. (2010) Containing Communism by Impounding Rivers: American Strategic Interests and the Global Spread of High Dams in the Early Cold War. In: Environmental Histories of the Cold War. unapi

Chapter Merlin, Mark D.; Gonzalez, Ricardo M. (2010) Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Testing in Remote Oceania, 1946--1996. In: Environmental Histories of the Cold War. unapi

Chapter Bankoff, Greg (2010) A Curtain of Silence: Asia's Fauna in the Cold War. In: Environmental Histories of the Cold War. unapi

Chapter Zierler, David (2010) Against Protocol: Ecocide, Détente, and the Question of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam, 1969--1975. In: Environmental Histories of the Cold War. unapi

Chapter Hünemörder, Kai (2010) Environmental Crisis and Soft Politics: Détente and the Global Environment, 1968--1975. In: Environmental Histories of the Cold War. unapi

Chapter Deese, R. S. (2010) The New Ecology of Power: Julian and Aldous Huxley in the Cold War Era. In: Environmental Histories of the Cold War. unapi

Chapter Higuchi, Toshihiro (2010) Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Debate on Risk Knowledge in Cold War America, 1945--1963. In: Environmental Histories of the Cold War. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Martini, Edwin A.
Sáez de Adana, Francisco
Krige, John
Gavin, Francis J.
Camprubi Bueno, Lino
Weiner, Sharon K.
Journals
War and Society
Technology and Culture
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal of Contemporary History
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Diplomatic History
Publishers
University of Massachusetts Press
The MIT Press
Stanford University Press
University of Texas at Austin
Yale University Press
University of California, Los Angeles
Concepts
Cold War
Science and politics
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Science and war; science and the military
Science and government
Political activists and activism
People
Pauling, Linus Carl
Kistiakowsky, George Bogdan
Wiesner, Jerome B.
Sagan, Carl
Rabinowitch, Eugene
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Vietnam
Great Britain
Spain
Russia
Institutions
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Partial Test Ban Treaty; Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Federation of American Scientists
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
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