Scorched Earth (eBook)

Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature

Emmanuel Kreike (Autor)

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2021
538 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18901-7 (ISBN)

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A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crimeThe environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies has been a target and instrument of war for centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced populations, and the devastation of people's livelihoods and ways of life. Scorched Earth traces the history of scorched earth, military inundations, and armies living off the land from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, arguing that the resulting deliberate destruction of the environment-"e;environcide"e;-constitutes total war and is a crime against humanity and nature.In this sweeping global history, Emmanuel Kreike shows how religious war in Europe transformed Holland into a desolate swamp where hunger and the black death ruled. He describes how Spanish conquistadores exploited the irrigation works and expansive agricultural terraces of the Aztecs and Incas, triggering a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic proportions. Kreike demonstrates how environmental warfare has continued unabated into the modern era. His panoramic narrative takes readers from the Thirty Years' War to the wars of France's Sun King, and from the Dutch colonial wars in North America and Indonesia to the early twentieth century colonial conquest of southwestern Africa.Shedding light on the premodern origins and the lasting consequences of total war, Scorched Earth explains why ecocide and genocide are not separate phenomena, and why international law must recognize environmental warfare as a violation of human rights.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
• Reihe/Serie: Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b/w illus. 10 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: 1918 flu pandemic • Aceh • Aftermath of World War II • Agent Orange • Agriculture • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • American Civil War • Americas • Ancient Rome • armies living off the land • Ashanti empire • Atahualpa • atlantic slave trade • Bannock War • Battles of Saratoga • Beaver Wars • belligerent • Bergen op Zoom • Bison hunting • Black Kettle • black legend • camp follower • Camp Grant massacre • cattle • Cavalry • Central America • Cherokee removal • climate change • Colonial War • Combatant • Conquistador • cultivator • Dark earth • Death marches (Holocaust) • Decimation (Roman army) • deforestation • Displacement • Drainage • Drought • Dry season • Dutch Revolt • Dutch West India Company • dysentery • Ecocide • environcidal war • environmental crime • environmental disasters • Environmental history • Environmental Impact of War • Epidemic • Ethnocide • European colonization of the Americas • European theatre of World War II • Exaction • experience of war • Extortion • extrajudicial killing • extreme poverty • famine • Famine food • Famine Relief • firewood • Flood • floodplain • fodder • food security • forced migration • Fortification • Fort Miami (Indiana) • Fort Miami (Ohio) • French army • Fruit tree • ghost dance • global catastrophic risk • Granary • grazing • guerrilla warfare • Haarlem • Henry Darger • Household • human impact of war • humanitarian crisis • Humanitarian Disasters • Hunter-Gatherer • Impressment • Indigenous peoples • Indigenous peoples of the Americas • Infrastructure • Java War • King Philip's War • laborer • Labour service (Hungary) • Latin America • law of war • laws of war • Leiden • limited war • Livelihood • livestock • Looting • Low Countries • Maastricht • Maize • Malnutrition • manure • Mass murder • Mass Violence • military campaign • Mining • Multatuli • mutiny • Namibia • natural disaster • Nature-Culture • New Laws • Nez Perce War • North America • on war • Pacification of Ghent • Pamphlet • Passenger pigeon • pasture • Payment • Peat • people's war • Polder • Population decline • postharvest • postwar reconstruction • Poverty • Prisoner of War • Privateer • Prize of war • Protestant Union • Punitive Expedition • Red River Campaign • Red Sticks • Refugee • Refugee crisis • Refugees • Regiment • Reprisal • resource wars • Rinderpest • Robbery • rules of war • rural impacts of war • Rwandan Genocide • Sand Creek massacre • Sanremo • scurvy • Settler Colonialism • Siege • Siege of Leiden • Sitting Bull • Slavery • Sluice • Smallpox • societal collapse • South Africa • Spanish army • Spanish Netherlands • spectacular violence • Storage pit (archaeology) • Structural Violence • Tax • Theft • Theodor de Bry • Thirty Years' War • total loss • Total War • Trail of Tears • unfree labour • Vegetable • war • war and environment • war and logistics • War and Society • War Crime • war economy • war effort • War Experience • warfare • war inundations • War of the Austrian Succession • War of the Spanish Succession • war practices • Water board (Netherlands) • Western United States • World War I
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18901-3 / 0691189013
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18901-7 / 9780691189017