"Kreike's analysis is novel, compelling, and provocative. Scorched Earth is a significant and important book that offers a major reframing of conventional assumptions about the nature of war and even nature itself." --Mark Levene, author of The Crisis of Genocide "The culmination of decades of painstaking work, this book is a crowning achievement. Scorched Earth provides new insights into dozens of campaigns in European and colonial warfare, and will shape debate for years to come." --J. R. McNeill, author of Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 " Scorched Earth is an impressive, thought-provoking, and richly detailed book. Kreike offers a new analytical lens through which to study the consequences of total war on both the environment and human societies.

" --Geoffrey B. Robinson, author of The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 "Emmanuel Kreike has produced a sweeping synthesis of the history of war and environmental history grounded in a broad array of examples on both sides of the Atlantic. Scorched Earth illuminates the connections between environmental destruction, total war, and genocide that birthed the modern world and threaten still to destroy it." --Louis S. Warren, author of God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America "Wide-ranging and deeply researched, Scorched Earth traces the origins of genocidal colonial warfare in America, Africa, and Asia through a centuries-long European tradition of environmental destruction in pursuit of military victory." --Sam White, author of A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America.