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Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases (Donald R. Ellegood International Publications) Kindle Edition
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.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUniversity of Washington Press
- Publication dateMay 1, 2015
- File size6573 KB
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"This collection is a major addition to the literature on the environmental consequences of U.S. military operations during and since the Cold War."―Richard Tucker, author and editor of Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward an Environmental History of War
About the Author
Edwin A. Martini is associate dean, College of Arts and Sciences, and 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.
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- ASIN : B0126SDU4G
- Publisher : University of Washington Press (May 1, 2015)
- Publication date : May 1, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 6573 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 344 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,031,283 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,667 in Nuclear Weapons & Warfare History (Books)
- #2,872 in Military Science History
- #5,399 in Conservation
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Ed Martini Professor of History at Western Michigan University. He received his B.A. from Pitzer College and his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland. He lives in Kalamazoo with his wife, Genanne, and his two sons.
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