War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring

While cultural and scholarly traditions have led us to believe that war and control of nature are separate, there are many more similarities than most people might suspect. Tracing the history of chemical warfare and pest control, Edmund Russell shows how war and control of nature coevolved. Ideologically, institutionally, and technologically, the paths of chemical warfare and pest control intersected repeatedly in the twentieth century. War and Nature helps us to understand the impact of war on nature and vice versa, as well as the development of total war, and the rise of the modern environmental movement. Edmund Russell is an assistant professor in the Division of Technology, Culture, and Communication in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. This is his first book.

Author: Edmund Russell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/07/2001
Pages: 334
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.97h x 5.95w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780521799379

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2000 pg. 1748
Choice 12/01/2001 pg. 706
Booklist 04/01/2001 pg. 1439

About the Author
Russell, Edmund: - Edmund Russell is the Hall Distinguished Professor of US History at the University of Kansas. He works primarily in environmental history and the history of technology. He is the author of Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and co-editor, with Richard Tucker, of Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward an Environmental History of War (2004). Russell's work has won the Edelstein Prize of the Society for the History of Technology, the Rachel Carson Prize, and the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society for Environmental History and the Forum for the History of Science in America.