Edmund Russell

Broschiertes Buch

War and Nature

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

Herausgeber: Worster, Donald; Crosby, Alfred W.

Beschreibung

Shows the intersection of chemical warfare and pest control in the twentieth century.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780521799379
• ISBN-10: 0521799376
• Artikelnr.: 22462358