Neil Oatsvall
Biographic Data
| ID | 5166816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Oatsvall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Oatsvall |
| SIGNATURE | OATSVALL N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Devil Was in the Englishman that He Makes Everything Work”: Implementing the Concept of “Work” to Reevaluate Sugar Production and Consumption in the Early Modern British Atlantic World
Neil Oatsvall, Vaughn Scribner, “The Devil Was in the Englishman that He Makes Everything Work”: Implementing the Concept of “Work” to Reevaluate Sugar Production and Consumption in the Early Modern British Atlantic World, Agricultural History, Vol. 92, No. 4 (Fall 2018), pp. 461-490
Militarizing the Environment: Climate Change and the Security State by Robert P. Marzec
Reviewed by: Militarizing the Environment: Climate Change and the Security State by Robert P. Marzec Neil Oatsvall (bio) Militarizing the Environment: Climate Change and the Security State. By Robert P. Marzec. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. Pp. 320. $27. While the overwhelming majority of the scientific community has accepted that global climate change is occurring, many politicians intransigently insist on the contrary. One n…
Atomic Agriculture: Policymaking, Food Production, and Nuclear Technologies in the United States, 1945-1960
While most stories of splitting the atom—from Chernobyl to Fukushima and Hiroshima to the Marshall Islands—revolve around images of pure destruction and human misery, the truth is that a much more complicated relationship has existed between nuclear technologies and human existence. This article focuses on agriculture to explore how executive branch policymakers in the United States implemented nuclear technologies in the budding nuclear age. Par…
Trees Versus Lives: Reckoning Military Success and the Ecological Effects of Chemical Defoliation During the Vietnam War
During the Vietnam War, the United States military declared war not just on Vietnamese peoples, but also on nature itself. Operation Ranch Hand served as the U.S. military's answer to the Vietnamese Communist appropriation of the natural world into their war plans, as U.S. planes dumped nearly twenty million gallons of chemical herbicides on Vietnamese fields and forests. Examining and comparing the military and ecological effects of Ranch Hand, …
Atomic Agriculture: Policymaking, Food Production, and Nuclear Technologies in the United States, 1945-1960
While most stories of splitting the atom—from Chernobyl to Fukushima and Hiroshima to the Marshall Islands—revolve around images of pure destruction and human misery, the truth is that a much more complicated relationship has existed between nuclear technologies and human existence. This article focuses on agriculture to explore how executive branch policymakers in the United States implemented nuclear technologies in the budding nuclear age. Par…
Trees Versus Lives: Reckoning Military Success and the Ecological Effects of Chemical Defoliation During the Vietnam War
During the Vietnam War, the United States military declared war not just on Vietnamese peoples, but also on nature itself. Operation Ranch Hand served as the U.S. military's answer to the Vietnamese Communist appropriation of the natural world into their war plans, as U.S. planes dumped nearly twenty million gallons of chemical herbicides on Vietnamese fields and forests. Examining and comparing the military and ecological effects of Ranch Hand, …
Atomic Agriculture: Policymaking, Food Production, and Nuclear Technologies in the United States, 1945-1960
While most stories of splitting the atom—from Chernobyl to Fukushima and Hiroshima to the Marshall Islands—revolve around images of pure destruction and human misery, the truth is that a much more complicated relationship has existed between nuclear technologies and human existence. This article focuses on agriculture to explore how executive branch policymakers in the United States implemented nuclear technologies in the budding nuclear age. Par…
Militarizing the Environment: Climate Change and the Security State by Robert P. Marzec
Reviewed by: Militarizing the Environment: Climate Change and the Security State by Robert P. Marzec Neil Oatsvall (bio) Militarizing the Environment: Climate Change and the Security State. By Robert P. Marzec. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. Pp. 320. $27. While the overwhelming majority of the scientific community has accepted that global climate change is occurring, many politicians intransigently insist on the contrary. One n…
The Devil Was in the Englishman that He Makes Everything Work”: Implementing the Concept of “Work” to Reevaluate Sugar Production and Consumption in the Early Modern British Atlantic World
Neil Oatsvall, Vaughn Scribner, “The Devil Was in the Englishman that He Makes Everything Work”: Implementing the Concept of “Work” to Reevaluate Sugar Production and Consumption in the Early Modern British Atlantic World, Agricultural History, Vol. 92, No. 4 (Fall 2018), pp. 461-490
Political science (3 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Production (economics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Agricultural economics (1 works) · Agriculture (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works)