Jeremy Black

Jeremy Black appears in Elbows up, again: a US-Canada trade flare-up as the military historian whose siege distinction anchors the episode’s final segment. Prompted by Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the segment uses Black’s contrast between totemic and utilitarian sieges to separate later symbolic memory from direct strategic consequence.

In this source, Black’s contribution is classificatory rather than a full campaign history. Vienna / 维也纳 in 1683 and the Alamo in 1836 appear as totemic cases, while Tyre, Leningrad, and Malta appear as utilitarian cases involving heavy material and strategic stakes. The page therefore connects him primarily to Siege Typology rather than to each siege as a separate canonical subject.

Connections

• Siege Typology - concept grounded by his distinction.
• The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan, Homer, and Odysseus - cultural prompt for the segment.
• Vienna / 维也纳, Ottoman Empire / 奥斯曼帝国, and Hydraulic Siege Warfare / 水攻围城 - adjacent siege and military-history context.