03883nam 22007691 450 991077900650332120200514202323.01-4742-1122-41-280-57755-X97866136072941-4411-1357-610.5040/9781474211222(CKB)2550000000101397(EBL)918773(OCoLC)793996920(SSID)ssj0000655718(PQKBManifestationID)12328811(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000655718(PQKBWorkID)10631207(PQKB)10869652(MiAaPQ)EBC918773(Au-PeEL)EBL918773(CaPaEBR)ebr10562638(CaONFJC)MIL360729(OCoLC)1058814875(UtOrBLW)bslw09309313(EXLCZ)99255000000010139720150116d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAn environmental history of the UK defence estate, 1945 to the present /Marianna DudleyLondon ;New York :Continuum,2012.1 online resource (273 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4725-3373-9 1-4411-9242-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction -- 2. Dartmoor -- 3. Castlemartin -- 4. Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA) -- 5. Tyneham -- 6. Sennybridge Training Area (SENTA) -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index"This book brings to attention the history of places that have traditionally remained under-the-radar in discussions of war and the environment, through site-based studies of five training areas in southwest England and Wales: Salisbury Plain, Lulworth, Dartmoor, Sennybridge and Castlemartin. At these sites, the big events of the twentieth century are written into landscapes that absorb their impact and reflect change in intriguing ways. Here, however, environment is more than a canvas on which historical forces play out; it has an agency of its own, as the depiction of the surprising nature and robust habitats of the training areas recognises. An Environmental History of the UK Defence Estate, 1945 to the Present critically examines the gradual 'greening' of the MoD as it developed policies of military environmentalism. It includes the histories of the ghost-villages created by forced evictions, and charts the rise and fall of anti-military protest movements. It depicts heated confrontations, mass trespasses, and demands for public access alongside conservation work and training activities, situating the human histories of these sites within their environmental history, and taking the reader behind the barbed wire in the first study of its kind."--Bloomsbury Publishing.Armed forcesEnvironmental aspectsLand useEnvironmental aspectsLand useMilitary art and scienceMilitary basesEnvironmental aspectsMilitary readinessEnvironmental aspectsMilitary readiness20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000Great BritainArmed forcesEnvironmental aspects.Land useEnvironmental aspects.Land use.Military art and science.Military basesEnvironmental aspects.Military readinessEnvironmental aspects.Military readiness.355.7Dudley Marianna1584668UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910779006503321An environmental history of the UK defence estate, 1945 to the present3868610UNINA