The US military and the Pacific environment the making of an American lake / edited by Andrew C. Isenberg, Beth Bailey, and Paul Landsberg.
| Other author | Isenberg, Andrew C. (Andrew Christian |
| Other author | Bailey, Beth L., 1957 |
| Other author | Landsberg, Paul (Military historian |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 2025. |
| Description | vi, 306 pages illustrations 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Series | Modern war studies |
| Contents | Introduction. An American Lake? / Beth Bailey and Andrew C. Isenberg -- "A lifetime of bad dreams" : military base construction and the environment at Port Moresby, Papua-New Guinea in 1942 / John Moremon -- Animal histories and the Pacific War : decentering violence and destruction / Christopher Capozzola and William San Martín -- War and ecological imperialism in the Alaskan indigenous environment / Holly Miowak Guise -- A fire came down from Heaven : destroying natural and built environments with Napalm during World War II / Michael A. Hill -- Ashes to ashes, dust to dust : radiation and the environment in the Marshall Islands / Joshua McGuffie -- The ring of fire : how underground nuclear explosions in Alaska unleashed the catastrophic imaginary of the Pacific World / Toshihiro Higuchi -- Atomic currents : the U.S. military & nuclear energy in the Alaskan Pacific / Philip A. Wight -- "We are freed from the tyranny of terrain" : airmobility and the U.S. Army's Global environment / Paul C. Landsberg -- Imagined environmental warfare : Vietnamese experts, the French military, and American Herbicides in the Red River Delta, 1952-1954 / Michitake Aso -- Kidnapped on the beach : global grids and communist state-building in a Cold War borderland / David Biggs -- The neglected role of oceans and marine resources in the US-Vietnam War / Pamela McElwee -- Militarized harvests : rice and revolutionary warfare in South Vietnam / Martin G. Clemis. |
| Abstract | "The environmental consequences of the US military presence from World War II through the end of the US war in Vietnam. Oceans and deserts, jungles and plains, mountains and rivers, monsoons and blizzards, fertile grounds and diseased lands; all have shaped how strategy and technology has been deployed and developed, and all have supported unexpected victories and decimated even the best-laid plans. Conversely, warfare and militarization have shaped the environment, scarring landscapes, accelerating the global spread of disease, unbalancing ecosystems, and contributing to climate change. Reflecting on the inextricable, reciprocal, and often surprising relationship between the natural world and human warfare, these essays offer a new perspective on power, knowledge, and the environment in US military history. The history of US military engagement in the Pacific powerfully demonstrates the profound and diverse impacts that regions' extraordinarily diverse environments have wrought on warfare. US military action has also had profound impacts in the Pacific, from the nuclear weapons testing programs of the Cold War to the use of chemical defoliants in Vietnam. The contributors to this volume consider how the physical environments of the Pacific shaped the process and outcome of battles and wars, and discuss the effect warfare and other military actions had on these physical environments"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract | "The natural environment has always shaped human warfare. This volume, focused on the actions of the U.S. military in the Pacific from World War II through the end of the U.S. war in Vietnam, addresses both the material and ideational consequences of those actions on Pacific environments and, in turn, the reciprocal impact of Pacific environments on military thought and action in the region. Covering 52 percent of the Earth's surface and including 60 percent of the world's population, this vast geographic expanse contains a range of environments, from Arctic to tropical, rainforests to tundras, volcanic islands to lush tropical "paradises," places densely inhabited and empty of human settlement, and ocean depths to mountain heights. In these varied environments, the United States fought the major wars of the twentieth century, from World War II forward. The environmental consequences of the US military presence in the Pacific have been profound. They include the outbreak of disease (particularly malaria during World War II); the dropping of nuclear bombs on two cities in Japan in August 1945; the testing of even more powerful nuclear weapons in South Pacific islands during the Cold War; and the use of 13 million gallons of chemical defoliants in Vietnam between 1961 and 1971"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibilographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024060700 |
| ISBN | 9780700638703 cloth |
| ISBN | ebook |
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