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Empire of Chance : The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things / Anders Engberg-Pedersen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) : 30 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674967649
  • 9780674425415
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.2/7 23
LOC classification:
  • DC226.3 .E54 2015eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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