Environment as a Weapon Geographies, Histories and Literature /

Environment as a Weapon considers how the confluence of war and nature from the time of the Agricultural Revolution (10,000 BCE) to our present day has been represented in works of history, geography, and literature. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Torah and Greco-Roman myths, warfare is a trope comme...

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1. Verfasser: Travis, Charles (VerfasserIn)
Körperschaft: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2024.
Schriftenreihe:Historical Geography and Geosciences,
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Online-Zugang:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50856-1
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Chapter 1. Prologue: Environment and War
  • Chapter 2. Ancient Warfare, 1500 BCE-128 CE
  • Chapter 3. Medieval Age Perceptions of War and Environment, 975-1493 CE
  • Chapter 4. Seachange: Early Modern Oceanic Wars, 1588-1762
  • Chapter 5. Winter Revolutions, 1775-1777
  • Chapter 6. The Decay of Nature and Birth of Total War, 1798-1812
  • Chapter 7. Industrial War of Organic Beings, The American Caesura 1860-1865
  • Chapter 8. Environmental Strategies and the Military-Ecological Complex, 1914-1975
  • Chapter 9. Epilogue: Tickling the Dragon’s Tail.