JOURNAL ARTICLE

Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe: The Meuse Region, 1250–1850.

  • Published In: German History, 2023, v. 41, n. 2. P. 297 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Bachrach, David S. 3 of 3

Abstract

He also challenges two underlying assumptions in most earlier scholarship, namely that premodern armies lacked the technology to influence environments in systematic and meaningful ways and the concomitant (albeit somewhat inconsistent) view that premodern armies were always destructive. The interplay between warfare and the environment has received considerable attention from scholars of modern history. The central questions that Govaerts poses in this chapter are whether armies contributed to the development of biotic communities, and whether armies disrupted biotic communities. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:German History. 2023/06, Vol. 41, Issue 2, p297
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0266-3554
  • DOI:10.1093/gerhis/ghad010
  • Accession Number:163872148
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