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The Resource Aftermath : the remnants of war, Donovan Webster
Aftermath : the remnants of war, Donovan Webster
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The item Aftermath : the remnants of war, Donovan Webster represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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The item Aftermath : the remnants of war, Donovan Webster represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries.
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- Summary
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- In riveting and revelatory detail, Aftermath documents the ways in which wars have transformed the terrain of the battlefield into landscapes of enduring terror and memory: in France, where millions of acres of farmland are cordoned off to all but a corps of demolition experts responsible for the undetonated bombs and mines of World War I that are now rising up in fields, gardens, and backyards, in a sixty-square-mile area outside Stalingrad that was a cauldron of
- Destruction in 1941 and is today an endless field of bones; in the Nevada deserts, where America waged a hidden nuclear war against itself in the 1950s, the results of which are only now becoming apparent; in Vietnam, where a nation's effort to remove the physical detritus of war has created biologic and psychological devastation; in Kuwait, where terrifyingly sophisticated warfare was followed by the Sisyphean task of making an uninhabitable desert capable of sustaining
- Life. Only now, at century's end, can we begin to see how the destructive, often lethal remnants of past wars remain deeply, fatally embedded in the present
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 279 pages
- Contents
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- Prologue
- Prometheus: Beginning of the Century
- 1. A Forbidden Forest: France, 1914-1918
- 2. Ghosts: Russia, 1941-1943
- 3. Playground: The Nevada Test Site, 1951-1963
- 4. Torn Leaf: Vietnam, 1965-1975
- 5. Eating the Elephant: Kuwait, 1990
- Epilogue
- The Furnace: End of the Century
- Isbn
- 9780679431954
- Label
- Aftermath : the remnants of war
- Title
- Aftermath
- Title remainder
- the remnants of war
- Statement of responsibility
- Donovan Webster
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- In riveting and revelatory detail, Aftermath documents the ways in which wars have transformed the terrain of the battlefield into landscapes of enduring terror and memory: in France, where millions of acres of farmland are cordoned off to all but a corps of demolition experts responsible for the undetonated bombs and mines of World War I that are now rising up in fields, gardens, and backyards, in a sixty-square-mile area outside Stalingrad that was a cauldron of
- Destruction in 1941 and is today an endless field of bones; in the Nevada deserts, where America waged a hidden nuclear war against itself in the 1950s, the results of which are only now becoming apparent; in Vietnam, where a nation's effort to remove the physical detritus of war has created biologic and psychological devastation; in Kuwait, where terrifyingly sophisticated warfare was followed by the Sisyphean task of making an uninhabitable desert capable of sustaining
- Life. Only now, at century's end, can we begin to see how the destructive, often lethal remnants of past wars remain deeply, fatally embedded in the present
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Webster, Donovan
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- U21.2
- LC item number
- .W392 1996
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- War
- War
- War and society
- War
- War and society
- War
- Krieg
- Erlebnisbericht
- Psychologie
- Andenken
- Gesellschaft
- Label
- Aftermath : the remnants of war, Donovan Webster
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- Contents
- Prologue -- Prometheus: Beginning of the Century -- 1. A Forbidden Forest: France, 1914-1918 -- 2. Ghosts: Russia, 1941-1943 -- 3. Playground: The Nevada Test Site, 1951-1963 -- 4. Torn Leaf: Vietnam, 1965-1975 -- 5. Eating the Elephant: Kuwait, 1990 -- Epilogue -- The Furnace: End of the Century
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 279 pages
- Isbn
- 9780679431954
- Lccn
- 96007649
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)34475395
- (OCoLC)ocm34475395
- Label
- Aftermath : the remnants of war, Donovan Webster
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue -- Prometheus: Beginning of the Century -- 1. A Forbidden Forest: France, 1914-1918 -- 2. Ghosts: Russia, 1941-1943 -- 3. Playground: The Nevada Test Site, 1951-1963 -- 4. Torn Leaf: Vietnam, 1965-1975 -- 5. Eating the Elephant: Kuwait, 1990 -- Epilogue -- The Furnace: End of the Century
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 279 pages
- Isbn
- 9780679431954
- Lccn
- 96007649
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)34475395
- (OCoLC)ocm34475395
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