Editors:
- Offers the first in-depth investigation of the relationship between World War II, cities, and the environment
- Covers a diverse array of socio-geographical environments across four continents
- Argues for the relevance of the urban environmental history of World War II today, as the consequences of climate change loom large and compel cities to find new solutions
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History (PSWEH)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Urban Environment
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Front Matter
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Urban Nature
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Front Matter
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Conclusions
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Front Matter
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About this book
Keywords
- Shock cities
- Urban planning
- Climate change
- Second World War
- Ecosystem
- Spanish Civil War
- water supply
- military-industrial complex
- air pollution
- wartime conservation
- wartime urban argiculture
- animals in World War II
- postwar recovery
- eco-horror
- atomic bomb in science fiction
- industrial warfare
- socio-environmental stress
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Simo Laakkonen
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Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
J. R. McNeill
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Richard P. Tucker
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Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Timo Vuorisalo
About the editors
J. R. McNeill is Professor of History at Georgetown University, USA.
Richard P. Tucker is Adjunct Professor of Environmental History at the University of Michigan, USA.
Timo Vuorisalo is Senior Lecturer of Environmental Science at the University of Turku, Finland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Resilient City in World War II
Book Subtitle: Urban Environmental Histories
Editors: Simo Laakkonen, J. R. McNeill, Richard P. Tucker, Timo Vuorisalo
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17439-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17438-5Published: 07 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17441-5Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17439-2Published: 27 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2730-9746
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 317
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, Environment Studies, Urban History, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Military