Empire of Chance : : The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things / / Anders Engberg-Pedersen.
Anders Engberg-Pedersen shows how the Napoleonic Wars inspired a new discourse on knowledge in the West. Soldiers returning from battle were forced to reconsider what it is possible to know and how decisions are made in a fog of imperfect knowledge. Chance no longer appeared exceptional but normativ...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 30 halftones |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Prism of War -- The Geometry of War: Siege Architecture and Narrative Form -- State of War 1800: Topography and Chance -- Modus Operandi: On Touch, Tact, and Tactics -- Exercising Judgment: Technologies of Experience -- Paper Empires: Military Cartography and the Management of Space -- The Poetics of War: Cartography and the Realist Novel -- Conclusion: The Disorder of Things -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Summary: | Anders Engberg-Pedersen shows how the Napoleonic Wars inspired a new discourse on knowledge in the West. Soldiers returning from battle were forced to reconsider what it is possible to know and how decisions are made in a fog of imperfect knowledge. Chance no longer appeared exceptional but normative-a prism for understanding the modern world. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674425415 9783110439687 9783110438635 9783110665901 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674425415 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Anders Engberg-Pedersen. |