Proving Grounds

Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2015
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99465-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Edwin A. Martini is professor of history at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty and Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975–2000. The contributors are Yooil Bae, Leisl Carr Childers, Brandon C. Davis, Heejin Han, David G. Havlick, Katherine M. Keirns, Neil Oatsvall, Jennifer Liss Ohayon, and Daniel Weimer.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Defending the Nation, Protecting the Land

2. Weather, Otters, and Bombs

3. Incident at Galisteo

4. "This Is Really Bad Stuff Buried Here"

5. The War on Plants

6. Addressing Environmental Risks and Mobilizing Democracy?

7. Reality Revealed

8. A Wildlife Insurgency

9. Restoration and Meaning on Former Military Lands in the United States

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.2015
Reihe/Serie	Proving Grounds
Zusatzinfo	19 illus.
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-295-99465-7 / 0295994657
ISBN-13	978-0-295-99465-9 / 9780295994659
Zustand	Neuware