Range wars : the environmental contest for White Sands Missile Range

Author/Creator:

Edgington, Ryan H., author

Publication/Creation:

Lincoln, [Nebraska] : University of Nebraska Press, 2014

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Range wars : the environmental contest for White Sands Missile Range / Ryan H. Edgington ; designed by N. Putens

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Additional Author/Creators:

Putens, N., designer

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Land use--Environmental aspects--New Mexico--White Sands Missile Range--History
Land use--Political aspects--New Mexico--White Sands Missile Range--History
Social conflict--New Mexico--White Sands Missile Range--History
Nuclear weapons--Testing--Environmental aspects--New Mexico--White Sands Missile Range--History
Landscape protection--New Mexico--White Sands Missile Range--History
Environmental policy--United States--History
Militarism--Environmental aspects--West (U.S.)--History
White Sands Missile Range (N.M.)--Environmental conditions
White Sands Missile Range (N.M.)--History
United States--Military policy

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Seeds of Discontent -- Atomic Attractions -- Boundaries -- A Consumer's Landscape -- Range Wars -- Natural Security States.

Summary:

"Established in south-central New Mexico at the end of World War II, White Sands Missile Range is the largest overland military reserve in the western hemisphere. It was the site of the first nuclear explosion, the birthplace of the American space program, and the primary site for testing U.S. missile capabilities. In this environmental history of White Sands Missile Range, Ryan H. Edgington traces the uneasy relationships between the military, the federal government, local ranchers, environmentalists, state game and fish personnel, biologists and ecologists, state and federal political figures, hunters, and tourists after World War II--as they all struggled to define and productively use the militarized western landscape. Environmentalists, ranchers, tourists, and other groups joined together to transform the meaning and uses of this region, challenging the authority of the national security state to dictate the environmental and cultural value of a rural American landscape. As a result, White Sands became a locus of competing geographies informed not only by the far-reaching intellectual, economic, and environmental changes wrought by the Cold War but also by regional history, culture, and traditions"--

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (503 p.)

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936718794102486

ISBN:

0-8032-5535-7
0-8032-5563-2
0-8032-5562-4

OCLC Number:

881244968
881568549