woods and WARFARE IN WORLD HISTORY

From: Environmental History | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORIANS have slowly come around to the idea that their purview extends to the study of war and military organizations. For much of the last five thousand years, most societies took the possibility of warfare quite seriously, and conducted their affairs accordingly. The principal duty of the state, in most cases, was to protect its subjects from enemy attack. Normally, the promise of protection was what legitimized the exactions states imposed. Until the nineteenth century, most of the revenues that states collected went to their militaries. In this light, it should come as no ...

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