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Natural Enemy, Natural Ally : Toward An Environmental History of War, Paperback / softback Book

Natural Enemy, Natural Ally : Toward An Environmental History of War Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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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.

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