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Clausewitz in His Time : Essays in the Cultural and Intellectual History of Thinking about War / Peter Paret.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (150 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781782385813
  • 9781782385820
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355.02 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 his career in a complex military society, together with that of other students of war, both friends and rivals, providing a broad perspective that leads to significant documents so far unknown or ignored. They add to our understanding of Clausewitz’s early ideas and their expansion into a comprehensive theory that continues to challenge our thinking about war today.
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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

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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 his career in a complex military society, together with that of other students of war, both friends and rivals, providing a broad perspective that leads to significant documents so far unknown or ignored. They add to our understanding of Clausewitz’s early ideas and their expansion into a comprehensive theory that continues to challenge our thinking about war today.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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