Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward an Environmental History of Warfare
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Book Description
How has war changed and damaged the environment? How has nature influenced war? As the first collection of essays on war and environmental history, Natural Enemy, Natural Ally heralds the advent of a major new field of study. Contributors to the 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 pre-colonial India and early colonial 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.
About the Author
Richard P. Tucker is Adjunct Professor of Natural Resources at the University of Michigan, and Professor Emeritus of History at Oakland University. His most recent book is Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World.
Edmund Russell is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society and of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to "Silent Spring," which won the Edelstein Prize of the Society for the History of Technology.
Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward an Environmental History of Warfare,Richard P. Tucker,Edmund Russell,Oregon State University Press,0870710478,Environmental Science,Environmental Studies,Environmental aspects,History,History: World,Human Geography,Military - General,Modern - 20th Century,War
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