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. "Given the continuing prominence of war and armed conflict in the daily headlines, this is a timely and valuable addition to our thinking about why wars happen, what intended or unintended effects they may have, and how--like everything else--they touch on humankind's relationship with the earth." Richard P. Tucker is Adjunct Professor of Natural Resources at the University of Michigan, and Professor Emeritus of History at Oakland University. His most recent book is Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World. Edmund Russell is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society and of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to "Silent Spring," which won the Edelstein Prize of the Society for the History of Technology. Used Book in Good Condition