Nature at War
American Environments and World War II
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7307804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J L Anderson (0000-0003-2693-5800, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 633-634 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaab309 |
| OpenAlex | W4212971394 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Nature at War is a fresh, engaging examination of how the American war effort resulted in an environmental transformation unique in scale and duration. The editors assembled twelve chapters, grouped into five topic areas, including new weapons and spaces, military materials (food, plants, metals, and energy), landscapes, the scientific frontier, and conservation. All of the essays offer new insights into government priorities in organizing environments and the ways wartime activities radiated (figuratively and literally) outward from the mines of Bolivia, Illinois farms, the Gulf Coast, or a desert in New Mexico. While this review space does not allow a full discussion of every essay, a few examples will suffice to show the value of the collection. The most successful essays demonstrate both upstream and downstream consequences of World War II. Kent Curtis's essay on mining focuses on a “war of metals,” explaining that the unprecedented demand for metals impelled a
Archaeology · Cartography · Downstream (manufacturing · Economic history · Environmental ethics · Frontier · Geography · Government (linguistics · Gulf war · Operations management · Political science · Scale (ratio · Space (punctuation) · Spanish Civil War · Upstream (networking · Value (mathematics · World War II · American Environmental and Regional History · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |