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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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Introduction: The Prism of War -- |t The Geometry of War: Siege Architecture and Narrative Form -- |t State of War 1800: Topography and Chance -- |t Modus Operandi: On Touch, Tact, and Tactics -- |t Exercising Judgment: Technologies of Experience -- |t Paper Empires: Military Cartography and the Management of Space -- |t The Poetics of War: Cartography and the Realist Novel -- |t Conclusion: The Disorder of Things -- |t Notes -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Index |
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