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Medientyp:
E-Book
Titel:
Empire of Chance
:
The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things
Enthält:
FrontmatterContentsIntroduction: The Prism of WarThe Geometry of War: Siege Architecture and Narrative FormState of War 1800: Topography and ChanceModus Operandi: On Touch, Tact, and TacticsExercising Judgment: Technologies of ExperiencePaper Empires: Military Cartography and the Management of SpaceThe Poetics of War: Cartography and the Realist NovelConclusion: The Disorder of ThingsNotesAcknowledgmentsIndex.
Hersteller der Reproduktion:
Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: Harvard University Press, 2015
Reproduktionsnotiz:
Electronic reproduction; Mode of access: World Wide Web
Entstehung:
Anmerkungen:
30 halftones
In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Beschreibung:
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
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