Why read War and Nature?

Book cover of War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring

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War and Nature combines discussion of technology, nature, and warfare to explain the impact of war on nature and vice versa. While cultural and scholarly traditions have led us to think of war and control of nature as separate, this 2001 book uses the history of chemical warfare and pest…

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1 author picked War and Nature as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Thomas I. Faith

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War and Nature is an innovative and thought-provoking look at the relationship between chemical warfare and insecticides that intersects military history, environmental history, and cultural history. Edmund Russell weaves together many disparate threads of inquiry into a cohesive and compelling story about how military tools can transition into commercial uses. War and Nature convinced me to study chemical warfare in my academic career more than any other book.

From Thomas' list on chemical weapons.