The article considers the example of dummy tanks used to deceive the enemy during WWII, the false expectations of the Allied forces that led them to believe that Franco’s fascist regime would fall long before it did, and the therapeutic promises offered by messianic leaders of totalitarian regimes.
Of the many factors that shaped energy transitions in the twentieth century, the World Wars are rarely considered. Yet the dramatic effects of war mobilization on energy systems and the restructuring of supply lines through new geographies of military action and alliance suggest the importance of war as an external shock or crisis with the power to reshape the political economy of energy systems profoundly. Hydroelectricity in Canada during World War II provides one example of this process. The War consolidated and propelled a transition to hydroelectricity, yet the transition was not simple or linear.
The article links this battlefield to the historical accounts of the “Battle of Teutoberg Forest” in the year 9 AD, in which three Roman legions suffered a devastating defeat at the hands of Germanic troops.
Blood in the Mobile is the story about how our phones are connected to illegal mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Disease, hunger, war, and religion have shaped human existence over many centuries. This volume of RCC Perspectives presents exciting syntheses between research in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and history.
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An overview of agricultural sustainability in the eastern Mediterranean Levantine Corridor (the western part of the Fertile Crescent).
In this book, David Biggs explores the actual uses of land and water in Vietnam through its troubled history.
An interdisciplinary explanation of why Europeans and people of European descent have come to control so much of the world’s wealth.
In this book David Zierler tries to explain the success of the campaign against herbicidal warfare that followed the start of Operation Ranch Hand in 1961.
This article addresses the direct impacts of war on the physical landscape and why the magnitude of disturbance has increased significantly over the past century.
