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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Table of Contents:
- 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