List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Mobilizing nature for World War I: an introduction Tait Keller; Part I. Europe and North America: Battle Zones and Support Systems: 2. Beans are bullets, potatoes are powder: food as a weapon during World War I Alice Weinreb; 3. Dissolution before dissolution: the crisis of the wartime food regime in Austria-Hungary Ernst Langthaler; 4. The chemist's war: Edgewood Arsenal, World War I, and the birth of a militarized environment Gerard J. Fitzgerald; Part II. War's Global Reach: Extracting Natural Resources: 5. 'The mineral sanction': the Great War and the strategic role of natural resources Roy MacLeod; 6. Something new under the fog of war: World War I and the debut of oil on the global stage Dan Tamir; 7. World War I and the beginning of over-fishing in the North Sea Ingo Heidbrink; 8. The political and natural eco-footprint of World War I in East Asia: environments, systems building, and the Japanese Empire, 1914–23 Jack Patrick Hayes; Part III. The Middle East and Africa: Ecosystems, Refugees and Famine: 9. 'Make them hated in all of the Arab countries': France, famine and the creation of Lebanon Graham Auman Pitts; 10. Why are modern famines so deadly? World War I in Syria and Palestine Zachary J. Foster; 11. Starving for someone else's fight: World War I and food insecurity in the African Red Sea Region Steven Serels; 12. Forest policy, wildlife destruction, and disease ecologies: environmental consequences of World War I in Africa Thaddeus Sunseri; Part IV. The Long Aftermath: Environmentalism and Memory: 13. Disruption and reorganization: international preservation networks and World War I Raf De Bont and Anna-Katharina Wöbse; 14. Memories in mud: the environmental legacy of the Great War Frank Uekötter.
Surveys the ecological impacts of World War I, showing how the war had a global impact on the environment.
Richard P. Tucker is Adjunct Professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World (2000) and numerous publications on the environmental history of warfare. Tait Keller is an Associate Professor of History and former Director of the Environmental Studies and Sciences Program at Rhodes College. His publications include Apostles of the Alps (2016) and articles in journals such as Annales and Environmental History. He is a Fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. J. R. McNeill is Professor of History and University Professor at Georgetown University and author of prize-winning books such as Mosquito Empires (Cambridge, 2010) and Something New under the Sun (2000). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and served as President of the American Society for Environmental History (2011–13) and of the American Historical Association (2019). Martin Schmid is Associate Professor for Environmental History and Deputy Director (2016–17) at the Institute of Social Ecology of Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt in Vienna. He is founding member of the Center for Environmental History (ZUG), and served as its director in 2010–11. He was a 2011 Fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich.
'Anyone who wants to learn about the global ecological catastrophe
that the First World War precipitated must read this book. It is an
eye-opener and a disturbing reminder that those who set the Great
War in motion had no idea as to what they had let loose on the
world.' Jay Winter, author of War beyond Words: Languages of
Remembrances from the Great War to the Present
'This exciting collection represents the best of the innovative new
field of environmental history of war. Looking at the ways that the
First World War impacted land, food, and animals it will give us
new insights and fresh ways of thinking. This book will be a must
read for those wishing to understand the war.' Michael S. Neiberg,
author of The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern
America
'The truly global coverage of this pioneering environmental
perspective on the Great War breathes new life into the notion of
'total war' by venturing far beyond the battlefield and the hellish
mud of the Western Front's trenches to investigate the feeding and
fuelling of military support systems, and wider environmental
transformations, from Austria-Hungary to Africa and Japan. This
ambitious study of nature's mobilization stands out amidst the
onslaught of new books accompanying the centenary.' Peter Coates,
co-editor of Militarized Landscapes: From Gettysburg to Salisbury
Plain
'This collection of essays deserves a broad audience. The
innovative studies not only enrich the literature on the First
World War as a 'total' global conflict; they also present powerful
evidence of the interpretive insights that await historians in the
broader field in which environmental history and military history
intersect.' Roger Chickering, author of Imperial Germany and the
Great War, 1914–1918
'This engaging collection represents a welcome addition to the
previously neglected environmental history of World War I. Sharply
written chapters focus on the mobilizing of food, oil, and other
resources for war, while offering much needed coverage of the
environmental consequences of World War I in Africa, the Middle
East, and Asia. This book represents a vital contribution to the
burgeoning literature on war and the environment.' Charles E.
Closmann, author of War and the Environment: Military Destruction
in the Modern Age
'This is something truly new - a wonderful, global collection on
one of the most important yet neglected topics in history: the
legacy and impact of war on the environment. It brings together
some of the best scholars in the field of World War I and
environmental history and covers a dazzling array of topics.'
Christof Mauch, Director, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and
Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
'… [a] thoughtful and thought-provoking collection, highly
recommended especially for public and college library World History
or Environmental Studies collections.' Library Bookwatch
'… delivers a comprehensive and much-needed analysis of the
conquest of Central Asia and its place in the history of
nineteenth-century global expansions.' Alex Souchen, War in History
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