
Militarized Landscapes
From Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain
- 320 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The black smoke billowing from burning oil wells during the Gulf War of 1990-91 directed media and public attention towards war's devastating environmental impact. Yet even before the first bomb is dropped, preparation for warfare materially and imaginatively reshapes rural landscapes and environments. This volume is the first to explore the comparative histories and geographies of militarized landscapes. Moving beyond the narrow definition of militarized landscapes as theatres of war, it treats them as simultaneously material and cultural sites that have been partially or fully mobilized to achieve military aims. Ranging from the Korean DMZ to nuclear testing sites in the American West, and from Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain, Militarized Landscapes focuses on these often secretive, hidden, dangerous and invariably controversial sites that occupy huge swathes of national territories.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Author Biographies
- Introduction: Beneath the Camouflage: Revealing Militarized Landscapes
- PART I: INHABITING MILITARIZED LANDSCAPES
- PART II: COEXISTENT MILITARY AND CIVILIAN LANDSCAPES
- PART III: THE SURPRISING NATURE OF MILITARIZED LANDSCAPES
- PART IV: COMMEMORATING MILITARIZED LANDSCAPES
- Afterword: Militarized Landscapes
- Notes
- Index