Proving Grounds brings together a wide range of scholars across disciplines and geographical borders to deepen our understanding of the environmental impact that the U.S. military presence has had at home and abroad. The essays in this collection survey the environmental damage caused by weapons testing and military bases to local residents, animal populations, and landscapes, and they examine the military's efforts to close and repurpose bases-often as wildlife reserves. Together they present a complex and nuanced view that embraces the ironies, contradictions, and unintended consequences of U.S. militarism around the world. In complicating our understanding of the American military's worldwide presence, the essayists also reveal the rare cases when the military is actually ahead of the curve on environmental regulation compared to the private sector. The result is the most comprehensive examination to date of the U.S. military's environmental footprint-for better or worse-across the globe.
...MoreReview Sasha Davis (2016) Review of "Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases". Journal of American History (pp. 223-224).
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Robert R. Gioielli;
(2014)
Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago
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David Stradling;
Richard Stradling;
(2015)
Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland
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Colin Fisher;
(2015)
Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago
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Finis Dunaway;
(2015)
Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images
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Thomson, Jennifer Christine;
(2013)
From Wilderness to the Toxic Environment: Health in American Environmental Politics, 1945-Present
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David Bond;
(2022)
Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment
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Andrew R. Highsmith;
(2015)
Demolition Means Progress: Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis
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Brian Leech;
(2011)
Boom, Bust, and the Berkeley Pit: How Insiders and Outsiders Viewed the Mining Landscape of Butte, Montana
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Toshihiro Higuchi;
(2020)
Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis
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Fredric L. Quivik;
(2007)
The Historical Significance of Tailings and Slag: Industrial Waste as Cultural Resource
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Gioielli, Robert;
(2011)
“How Can Any Community Be Expected to Accept Such a Scar?”: The Movement Against Destruction and Environmental Activism in Postwar Baltimore
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David Schuyler;
(2018)
Embattled river: the Hudson and modern American environmentalism
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Frank A. von Hippel;
(2020)
The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth
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Josephson, Paul;
(2013)
Science and Technology in the International Arena
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Giovanni Carrosio;
Alessandra Landi;
(2023)
Spazio, ambiente, territorio. Teorie, metodi e prospettive di ricerca in sociologia
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William W. Buzbee;
(2014)
Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City
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Gisela Parak;
(2016)
Photographs of Environmental Phenomena: Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s-1970s
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Pursell, Carroll W.;
(2007)
The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology
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Ingram, Annie Merrill;
(2007)
Coming into Contact: Explorations In Ecocritical Theory and Practice
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Rothschild, Rachel;
(2013)
Environmental Awareness in the Atomic Age: Radioecologists and Nuclear Technology
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