Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward an Enviromental History of Warfare

ISBN-13: 9780870710476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 277 str.

Richard P. Tucker; Edmund Russell

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Contributors to this volume explore the dynamic between war and the physical environment from a variety of provocative viewpoints. The subjects of their essays range from conflicts in colonial India and South Africa to the U.S. Civil War and twentieth-century wars in Japan, Finland, and the Pacific Islands. Among the topics explored are: - the ways in which landscape can influence military strategies - why the decisive battle of the American Civil War was fought - the impact of war and peace on timber resources - the spread of pests and disease in wartime.