Natural Enemy, Natural Ally Toward an Environmental History of Warfare

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.Tucker, Richard P. is the author of 'Natural Enemy, Natural Ally Toward an Environmental History of Warfare' with ISBN 9780870710476 and ISBN 0870710478.