Empire of Chance : The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things /
Engberg-Pedersen, Anders
Empire of Chance : The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things / Anders Engberg-Pedersen. - 1 online resource (336 p.) : 30 halftones
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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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674967649 9780674425415
10.4159/9780674425415 doi
Chance.
Coincidence.
Military art and science--History--19th century.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.
HISTORY / Military / General.
DC226.3 / .E54 2015eb
940.2/7
Empire of Chance : The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things / Anders Engberg-Pedersen. - 1 online resource (336 p.) : 30 halftones
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674967649 9780674425415
10.4159/9780674425415 doi
Chance.
Coincidence.
Military art and science--History--19th century.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.
HISTORY / Military / General.
DC226.3 / .E54 2015eb
940.2/7