Richard P Tucker

Biographic Data

ID3590258
NAMERichard P Tucker
GIVEN NAMESRichard P
FAMILY NAMETucker
SIGNATURETUCKER R P
AFFILIATIONSOakland University
ORCID0000-0001-8552-5401
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS1501
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX7

  • Nature at War: American Environments and World War II

    Open AccessOhio The Nature of War: American Environments and World War II Columbus, Peter…BOOKNature at War2020

    This anthology is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens. World War II was a total and global war that involved the extraction, processing, and use of vast quantities of natural resources. The wartime military-industrial complex, the 'Arsenal of Democracy,' experienced tremendous economic growth and technological development, employing resources at a higher intensity than ever before.…

  • Nature at War

    Nicholas B Breyfogle, Peter Mansoor et al.BOOKNature at War2020

  • The Cold War and environmental history: Complementary fields

    Simo Laakkonen, Viktor Pál et al.ARTICLECold War History2016Cited by: 3

    The Cold War was not only for the hearts and minds of people, it was also for their mouths and bellies, that is, for food, energy and raw materials. This signified a global power struggle over the control of natural resources. In addition to the increasing consumption of natural resources and resulting pollution, the destructive capacity of the weapons of mass destruction compelled human beings to recognise that their activities could ultimately …

  • Rubber

    Open AccessRichard P Tucker, Richard TuckerCHAPTERThe Cambridge World History2015

    In 1715 Pope Clement XI declared that Chinese Catholics were not allowed to conduct Confucian ritual or ancestral ritual. In societies where religions were pitted against each other they have to be cleansed of their divisive potential by being encapsulated in nationalism. Islam contains ideas about just rule and divinely sanctioned law that were important in the ritual legitimacy of traditional states. The idea of a spirituality that transcended …

  • Colombia and World War I: The Experience of a Neutral Latin American Nation during the Great War and Its Aftermath, 1914-1921

    Richard P TuckerARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2015

    The cataclysm of World War I reverberated outward from the struggle among Europe's empires into many other regions of the world. Countries far from the military fronts experienced political, economic, social, and environmental entanglements and consequences. The centennial years of the conflagration are an appropriate time for studying the ways in which events in Europe and North America penetrated the ongoing flow of Latin American history. Jane…

  • The International Environmental Movement and the Cold War

    Richard P TuckerCHAPTEROxford Handbook of the Cold War2013

    This chapter, which examines the history of the international environmental movement during the Cold War, analyzes the emergence of and tenuous collaboration between the environmental and anti-nuclear movements. It discusses the early anti-nuclear movement in the 1950s, the emergence of the international environmental movement in the late 1960s, and the environmental controversies in the Soviet Union. The chapter argues that it was the June 1972 …

  • War and Natural Resources in History: Introduction

    Open AccessSimo Laakkonen, Richard P TuckerARTICLEGlobal Environment2012Cited by: 4

    Natural resources are rarely alone a sufficient reason for declaring war. Nevertheless, through human history natural resources have been an important motive, target, and resource for warfare. Until recently armies lived off the land; their logistical support systems were so rudimentary that nothing else was possible. This process provides the key to much of the damage caused by wars, from pre-historic tribal wars onwards. Colonial states initiat…

  • Environmental Histories of the Cold War

    Open AccessJohn Mcneill, Paul Josephson et al.BOOKEnvironmental Histories of the…2010

    Environmental Histories of the Cold War explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment, ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism. Environmental change accelerated sharply during the Cold War years, and so did environmentalism as both a popular movement and a scientific preoccupation. Most Cold War history entirely overlooks this rise of environmentalism and th…

  • Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia: Changing the Local-global Interface

    Open AccessRichard P Tucker, Richard TuckerARTICLEConservation and Society2008

  • Deforesting the earth: From prehistory to global crisis

    Open AccessRichard P TuckerARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography2004Cited by: 25

  • Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World

    Charles Coate, Richard P TuckerARTICLEJournal of American History2002Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World Get access Tucker Richard P.Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World 2000Berkeley University of California Pressxiv551$45.00, ISBN 0-520-22087-0 Charles Coate Charles Coate Eastern Oregon UniversityLa Grande, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jo…

  • Clear and Present Strangers: The Clash of Civilizations and International Conflict

    Errol A Henderson, Richard P Tucker et al.ARTICLEInternational Studies Quarterly2001Cited by: 95References: 16

    Huntington's (1993a, 1993b, 1996) clash of civilizations thesis suggests that states belonging to different civilizations are more likely to become involved in conflict with one another. To evaluate the empirical accuracy of Huntington's claims, we examined the relationship between civilization membership and interstate war between 1816 and 1992. We find that civilization membership was not significantly associated with the onset of interstate wa…

  • Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World

    Richard P Tucker, Richard TuckerBOOKInsatiable Appetite2000Cited by: 27

    In the late 1800s American entrepreneurs became participants in the 400-year history of European economic and ecological hegemony in the tropics. Beginning as buyers in the tropical ports of the Atlantic and Pacific, they evolved into land speculators, controlling and managing the areas where tropical crops were grown for carefully fostered consumer markets at home. As corporate agro-industry emerged, the speculators took direct control of the ec…

  • Taking Time Seriously: Time-Series-Cross-Section Analysis with a Binary Dependent Variable

    Niels Beck, Nathaniel Beck et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Political…1998Cited by: 1209References: 7

    Researchers typically analyze time-series-cross-section data with a binary dependent \nvariable (BTSCS) using ordinary logit or probit. However, BTSCS observations are \nlikely to violate the independence assumption of the ordinary logit or probit statistical \nmodel. It is well known that if the observations are temporally related that the results of \nan ordinary logit or probit analysis may be misleading. In this paper, we provide a simple \nd…

  • Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: A Reply to Farber and Gowa and to Mansfield and Snyder

    Open AccessWilliam R Thompson, Richard P Tucker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Conflict Resolution1997Cited by: 18References: 12

    Our entire field of study has become bewitched with the question(s) of democratic peace. The idea that domestic institutions and/or democratic norms could somehow be responsible for increasing tendencies toward more pacific behavior in international relations (at least among some states) has galvanized a variety of reactions. Some realists and neorealists reject the basic idea out of hand because it conflicts with their assumptions about the prep…

  • A Tale of Two Democratic Peace Critiques

    Open AccessWilliam R Thompson, Richard P Tucker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Conflict Resolution1997Cited by: 86References: 24

    Of approximately 100 empirical democratic peace articles published in journals and papers presented at conferences over the last 10 years, none identifies a positive and statistically significant relationship between democratic dyads and militarized conflict. Therefore, many international relations researchers have reached the conclusion that widespread democratization will lead to a more peaceful world. Nevertheless, two different attacks on the…

  • Human Impact on the Environment: Ancient Roots, Current Challenges

    Richard P Tucker, Judith E Jacobsen et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1995

  • Changing Pacific Forests: Historical Perspectives on the Forest Economy of the Pacific Basin

    Arthur F Mcevoy, John Dargavel et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1995

    Changing Pacific Forests examines the forest-related economy of the Pacific Basin--including Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, China, and the Philippines--from a historical perspective.Drawing on a 1991 conference sponsored by the Forest History Society and the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations held in Honolulu, these papers address a range of topics related to the changing Pacific forests, including the remnants of colonialism, …

  • Imperialism and Medicine in Bengal: A Socio-Historical Perspective

    Richard P Tucker, Poonam BalaARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1994

    Introduction Indigenous Medicine in Ancient and Medieval India Policy Background in the Pre-British Period Indigenous Drugs and Medical Practitioners Imperial Policies and Perspectives Imperialism and Medicine Attempts at Professionalisation State and Public Health in Bengal Imperial Policies and Medical Education An Ethnic Profile Conclusion

  • Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives on Today's Challenges in Central and South America

    M Schmink, Harold K Steen et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1994

  • Waters of Hope: Integrated Water Resource Development and Regional Cooperation within the Himalayan-Ganga-Brahmaputra-Barak Basin

    Open AccessRichard P Tucker, Basil George VergheseARTICLEMountain Research and Development1992

  • World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century

    Roger A Sedjo, John F Richards et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1989Cited by: 3References: 10

    a | -4 5 Wd deige = "Gee ah 59 ow if ae "o (qos haazonia and Southeast Asia still uncut and undegraded-should be conducted with a longer-term historical perspective.It is our hope that in some measure this volume will help contribute to this perspective and understanding

  • Dimensions of Deforestation in the Himalaya: The Historical Setting

    Open AccessRichard P TuckerARTICLEMountain Research and Development1987

    The causes of forest depletion in the Himalayan region are complex, and they vary from one local setting to another, as the result of long historical trends. This paper traces three major factors: the intrusion of modern political and economic systems into the mountains; the growth of modern resource management agencies, notably the Indian Forest Service; and the pressures of rural subsistence and population migrations

  • Food Shortage, Climatic Variability, and Epidemic Disease in Preindustrial Europe: The Mortality Peak in the Early 1740s

    Richard P Tucker, John D PostARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1987

  • The Evolution of Transhumant Grazing in the Punjab Himalaya

    Open AccessRichard P TuckerARTICLEMountain Research and Development1986

    In temperate-zone mountains, intensive grazing by goats and sheep has been a major cause of the slow degradation of forests and of soil erosion. This paper discusses the role of the British administrators who, from 1850 until Independence, attempted to control and later restrict grazing by Gaddi herds in order to foster the natural regeneration of trees. In an attempt to stabilize and extend agriculture the pre-British land tenure system was codi…