Clausewitz in His Time : : Essays in the Cultural and Intellectual History of Thinking about War / / Peter Paret.
Anything but a detached theorist, Clausewitz was as fully engaged in the intellectual and cultural currents of his time as in its political and military conflicts. Late-eighteenth century thought helped shape the analytic methods he developed for the study of war. The essays in this volume follow hi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Text and Context Two Paths to Clausewitz
- 2 A Learned Officer among Others
- 3 Frederick the Great as Interpreted by Clausewitz and Schlieffen Three Phases in the History of Strategy
- 4 From Ideal to Ambiguity Johannes von Müller, Clausewitz, and the People in Arms
- 5 “Half against My Will, I Have Become a Professor”
- 6 Two Historians on Defeat in War and Its Causes
- Bibliography
- Index of Texts
- Name Index