Table of Contents
Foreword John R. McNeill vii
Acknowledgments ix
List of Illustrations xi
Part I Introduction
1 The Long Shadows Simo Laakkonen Richard P. Tucker Timo Vuorisalo 3
2 Polemosphere: The War, Society, and the Environment Simo Laakkonen 15
3 World War II: A Global Perspective Evan Mawdsley 37
Part II Social and Environmental Impacts of the War
4 Environmental Policies of the Third Reich Simo Laakkonen 55
5 The Costs of the War for the Soviet Union Paul Josephson 75
6 Conceptualizing Wartime Flood and Famine in China Micah S. Muscolino 97
7 Environmental Scars in Northeastern India and Burma Richard P. Tucker 117
8 Hawai'i: Before and After Pearl Harbor Carol Maclennan 135
9 The Great Louse War: Control of Typhus Fever Helene Laurent 155
10 Perspectives on the Acoustic Ecology of War Outi Ampuja 175
Part III Resource Extraction and the War
11 Aluminum's Permanent Revolution Matthew Evenden 197
12 Crisis Utilization in Mexican Forests Christopher R. Boyer 217
13 Food Disruption and Agricultural Policy in Tanganyika Gregory Maddox 231
14 Japanese Imperialism and Marine Resources William M. Tsutsui Timo Vuorisalo 251
15 Opening the Circumpolar Arctic World Ilmo Massa Alla Bolotova 275
16 International Conservation after the Two World Wars Anna-Katharina Wöbse 295
Part IV Conclusions
17 Hypotheses: World War II and Its Shadows Simo Laakkonen Richard P. Tucker Timo Vuorisalo 315
List of Contributors 333
Index 337
