Physical, Historical and Military Geography
Author : Théophile Lavallée
Publisher : London : E. Stanford
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Geography
ISBN :
Author : Théophile Lavallée
Publisher : London : E. Stanford
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Geography
ISBN :
Author : Francis Galgano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136919805
This book of contributed chapters by subject matter expertly provides an overview and analysis of salient contemporary and historical military subjects from the military geographer’s perspective. Factors of geography have had a compelling influence on battles and campaigns throughout history; however, geography and military affairs have gained heightened attention during the past two decades, and military geography is the discipline best situated to explain them. Hence, the premise of this book and its contents are founded on the principle that geographical knowledge of space, place, people, and scale provide essential insights into contemporary security issues and promotes the idea that such insight is critical to understanding and managing significant military problems at local, regional, and global scales.
Author : John M. Collins
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1574881809
An examination of geography's critical effects on battles throughout the ages
Author : Eugene Joseph Palka
Publisher : Learning Solutions
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : History
ISBN :
The conduct of any military enterprise is conditioned by the character of the area of operations - the military operating environment. The book focuses on the synergy between georgraphy and military operations wherever they occur.
Author : Mona Domosh
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1619 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 1529738660
Historical geography is an active, theoretically-informed and vibrant field of scholarly work within modern geography, with strong and constantly evolving connections with disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. Across two volumes, The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography provides you with an an international and cross-disciplinary overview of the field, presenting chapters that examine the history, present condition and future potential of the discipline in relation to recent developments and research.
Author : P. Doyle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401715505
Terrain has a profound effect upon the strategy and tactics of any military engagement and has consequently played an important role in determining history. In addition, the landscapes of battle, and the geology which underlies them, has helped shape the cultural iconography of battle certainly within the 20th century. In the last few years this has become a fertile topic of scientific and historical exploration and has given rise to a number of conferences and books. The current volume stems from the international Terrain in Military History conference held in association with the Imperial War Museum, London and the Royal Engineers Museum, Chatham, at the University of Greenwich in January 2000. This conference brought together historians, geologists, military enthusiasts and terrain analysts from military, academic and amateur backgrounds with the aim of exploring the application of modem tools of landscape visualisation to understanding historical battlefields. This theme was the subject of a Leverhulme Trust grant (F/345/E) awarded to the University of Greenwich and administered by us in 1998, which aimed to use the tools of modem landscape visualisation in understanding the influence of terrain in the First World War. This volume forms part of the output from this grant and is part of our wider exploration of the role of terrain in military history. Many individuals contributed to the organisation of the original conference and to the production of this volume.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 2020-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780371688465
Author : Johann Georg Heck
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 20,35 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Thousands of illustrations from 19th-century archive: weapons, fortifications, fighting vessels, Egyptian costumes, mummies, Roman coins, medieval armor, much more.
Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 1999-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0393069222
"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."—Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.
Author : John M. Collins
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 1019 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1597974005
Provides an overview of the principles, theories, policies, and other fundamentals of modern warfare and their applications in the twenty-first century.