| Range Wars: The Environmental Contest for White Sands Missile Range Contributor(s): Edgington, Ryan H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803255357 ISBN-13: 9780803255357 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) - History | Military - United States - Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats - Deserts |
| Dewey: 304.209 |
| LCCN: 2013048673 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.03" W x 9.16" (0.88 lbs) 268 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology - Geographic Orientation - New Mexico |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Ryan H. Edgington is a visiting assistant professor of history at Macalester College. His articles have appeared in Western Historical Quarterly, Agricultural History, and in edited volumes. |
