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UNINA9910453375403321 |
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Autore |
Lockwood Jeffrey Alan <1960-> |
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Six-legged soldiers [[electronic resource] ] : using insects as weapons of war / / Jeffrey A. Lockwood |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
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1-281-72396-7 |
9786611723965 |
0-19-971560-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (400 p.) |
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Biological warfare |
Insects as carriers of disease |
Agroterrorism - Prevention |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction; ONE: STINGING DEFEATS AND VENOMOUS VICTORIES; TWO: VECTORS OF DEATH; THREE: BRINGING FEVER AND FAMINE TO A WORLD AT WAR; FOUR: COLD-BLOODED FIGHTERS OF THE COLD WAR; FIVE: THE FUTURE OF ENTOMOLOGICAL WARFARE; Epilogue; Suggested Readings; Notes; Index |
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The emir of Bukhara used assassin bugs to eat away the flesh of his prisoners. General Ishii Shiro during World War II released hundreds of millions of infected insects across China, ultimately causing more deaths than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. These are just two of many startling examples found in Six-legged Soldiers, a brilliant portrait of the many weirdly creative, truly frightening, and ultimately powerful ways in which insects have been used as weapons of war, terror, and torture. Beginning in prehistoric times and building toward a near and disturbing future, the reader is take |
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UNINA9910449747303321 |
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Autore |
Henig Ruth B (Ruth Beatrice) |
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Versailles and after, 1919-1933 [[electronic resource] /] / Ruth Henig |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995 |
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1-280-46336-8 |
9786610463367 |
0-203-13430-3 |
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[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (97 p.) |
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Collana |
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World War, 1914-1918 - Peace |
World War, 1914-1918 - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-78). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Versailles and after 1919-1933; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chronology of events; Western and Central Europe in 1919; Versailles and After 1919-1933; Introduction; Shaping the peace; Public opinion in the allied countries; Russia and Germany; The impact of the United States; Making the peace; Organization; The League of Nations; Mandates; Military and naval terms; Reparations; Frontiers in the Adriatic and Mediterranean region; The Far East; Keeping the peace; Eastern and South-Eastern Europe; Reparations and disarmament; Security; The League of Nations; Summary |
Peacemaking: the historical debatePeacekeeping: the problems; Appendix One; The powers represented at Paris; Appendix Two; A summary of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points; Select Bibliography |
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Ruth Henig's fully revised and extended second edition of Versailles and After includes a new chapter on recent historiography of the subject and provides students with concise coverage of the following topics:* the terms of the Treaty of Versailles* the inadeqacies of the League of Nations as a supranational peacekeeping body* why hopes of long term stability gradually faded. |
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