Environment as a Weapon
Charles Travis
Broschiertes Buch

Environment as a Weapon

Geographies, Histories and Literature

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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 commensurate with environmental disasters, extreme climate, and plague. In the medieval age myths the Táin, and Beowulf environments become allies and enemies. The equestrian steppeland as foundation of Genghis Khan's and his heirs Pax Mongolica is chronicled in The Secret History of the Mongols and The...