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Preface: American environments and the Second World War Peter Mansoor; Acknowledgments; Introduction: total war and American nature Thomas Robertson and Richard P. Tucker; Part I. New weapons, new spaces: 1. A war of mobility: transportation, American productive power, and the environment during World War II Thomas Robertson and Christopher W. Wells; 2. For land’s sake: World War II military land acquisition and alteration Jean Mansavage; Part II. Military materials I (inorganic): 3. “Tanks Are Born Underground”: mining and World War II Kent Curtis; 4. Fueling the “American Century”: establishing the US petroleum imperative Brian Black; Part III. Military materials II (organic): 5. Soldiers of the soil: labor, nature, and American agriculture during World War II Kendra Smith-Howard; 6. When meals became weapons: American food in World War II Kellen Backer; 7. From field to foxhole: cigarettes and soldiers in World War II Joel R. Bius; Part IV. New landscapes: cities and coasts: 8. A watery grave?: World War II and the environment on the American Gulf Coast Christopher M. Rein; 9. World War II and the urban environment: redirecting American politics in Los Angeles and beyond Sarah S. Elkind; Part V. New frontiers: microbes, molecules, and atoms: 10. Battling insects and infection: American chemical and pharmaceutical expansion during World War II Martha N. Gardner; 11. Shattered worlds: place, environment, and militarized landscapes at the dawn of atomic America Ryan H. Edgingtonl; Part VI. Conservation: 12. Total war and the total environment: World War II and the shift from conservation to environmentalism Thomas Robertson; Index.

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