Clausewitz in his time : essays in the cultural and intellectual history of thinking about war /
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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
[2015]
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Édition: | First edition. |
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Text and context: two ways to Clausewitz
- A learned officer among others
- Frederick the Great and his interpreters Clausewitz and Schlieffen
- Phases in the history of strategy
- From ideal to ambiguity: Johannes von Miller, Clausewitz
- And the people in arms
- "Half against my will I have become a professor"
- Two historians on defeat and its causes.