Environment as a Weapon

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 th...