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FS056 The Geography of War
Prof. Herb
Spring 2002

 

Required Texts/Readings

· John Keegan, War and Our World. New York: Vintage, 1998.
· FS056 coursepack, a collection of article and book excerpts, is available at the college store. Bullets with author and title of individual selections on the schedule identify assigned readings from the coursepack.
All readings are available on reserve at Armstrong Library.

 


Coursepack Contents

o Stoddart, D. R. "Geography and War: The 'New Geography' and the 'New Army' in England 1899-1914." Political Geography 11 (1992): 87-99.

o Townshend, C. "Introduction: The Shape of Modern War." In: Charles Townshend, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997: 3-18.

o Van Creveld, M. "Technology and War I: to 1945." In: Charles Townshend, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997: 175-93.

o Van Creveld, M. "Technology and War II: Postmodern War?" In: Charles Townshend, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997: 298-314.

o Murphy, A. "International Law and the Sovereign State System." In: George J. Demko and William B. Wood, eds. Reordering the World: geopolitical Perspectives on the 21st Century. Second Edition. Boulder: Westview, 1999: 227-245.

o O'Sullivan, P. & J. W. Miller, "Tactics and Terrain." In: Patrick O'Sullivan and Jesse W. Miller, The Geography of War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983: 61-80.

o O'Sullivan, P. & J. W. Miller, "Intelligence." In: Patrick O'Sullivan and Jesse W. Miller, The Geography of War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983: 18-31.

o Harley, J.B. "Maps, Knowledge and Power." In: Denis Cosgrove and Stephen Daniels, The iconography of landscape. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988: 277-312.

o Henderson, J. "Military Geography of the Civil War." In: Eugene J. Palka and Francis A. Galgano, eds. The scope of military geography: across the spectrum from peacetime to war. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000: 53-74.

o Livingstone, D. "Climate's Moral Economy: Science, Race and Place in Post-Darwinian British and American Geography." In: Anne Godlewska and Neil Smith, eds. Geography and Empire. New York: Blackwell, 1994: 155-72.

o Rothenberg, T. "Voyeurs of Imperialism." In: Anne Godlewska and Neil Smith, eds. Geography and Empire. New York: Blackwell, 1994: 132-54.

o Soffer, A. and J. Minghi, "Israel's security landscape." Professional Geographer 38 (1986): 28-41

o Parker, G. "The roots of twentieth-century geopolitical thought." In: Geoffrey Parker. Western Geopolitical Thought in the Twentieth Century. New York: St. Martin's press, 1985: 7-14.

o Parker, G. "Halford Mackinder and the World Outlook." In: Geoffrey Parker. Western Geopolitical Thought in the Twentieth Century. New York: St. Martin's press, 1985: 15-31.

o Westcott, A. Mahan on Naval Warfare. Selections from the writings of Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan. New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1941: v-xxi, 100-112, 285-287.

o Hepple, L. W. "The revival of geopolitics." Political Geography Quarterly 5 (1986): S21-S36.

o O'Sullivan, P. "Antidomino." Political Geography Quarterly 1 (1982).

o Homer-Dixon, T. "Environmental scarcity and mass violence." Current History. November 1996.

o Dodds, K. "The 1982 Falklands War and a critical geopolitical eye." Political Geography 15 (1996): 571-92.

o Headrick, D. R. The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1981: 150-91.

o Edney, M. "The Patronage of Science and the Creation of Imperial Space." Cartographica 30 (1993): 61-67.

o Burleigh, M. Germany Turns Eastwards: A Study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988: 253-99.

o Jackson, P. "Geography, race, and racism." In: Richard Peet and Nigel Thrift, eds. New Models in Geography: The political-economy perspective. Volume 2. Unwin Hyman, 1989: 176-95.

o Davis, DeWitt, Jr. "South African Apartheid: A socio-spatial problem." Focus Fall 1992: 12-17.

o Lohman, A. "Insurgencies and counter-insurgencies." In: Eugene J. Palka and Francis A. Galgano, eds. The scope of military geography: across the spectrum from peacetime to war. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000: 263-290.

o Hoffman, B. "Responding to terrorism across the technological spectrum." Terrorism and Political Violence 6,3 (1994).

o Ronfeld, D. and A. Martinez, "A comment on the Zapatista 'netwar'." In: John Arquilla and david Ronfeld, eds. In Athena's Camp: preparing for conflict in the information age. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1997: 110-21.

o Zunes, S. "The role of nonviolence in the downfall of Apartheid." In: Stephen Zunes, Lester Kurtz, Sarah Beth Asher, eds. Nonviolent Social Movements: A Geographical Perspective. New York: Blackwell, 1999: 203-230.

o Huntington, S. "Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs (1993): 22-49.

o Rubin, E. "An Army of One's Own." Harper's Magazine, February 1997: 44-55.

o "Select Enemy. Delete." The Economist, March 8, 1997: 21-24.

 

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