Natural Enemy, Natural Ally: Toward an Environmental History of WarfareRichard P. Tucker, Edmund Russell Oregon State University Press, 2004 - 280 sidor 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. |
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Introduction Edmund Russell and Richard P Tucker | 15 |
Gettysburg and the Organic Nature of | 93 |
The World Wars and the Globalization of Timber | 110 |
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