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With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other : The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North /
When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned first to the classic European military texts from the Napoleonic era, especially Antoine Henri Jomini's Summary of the Art of War. As Carol Reardo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned first to the classic European military texts from the Napoleonic era, especially Antoine Henri Jomini's Summary of the Art of War. As Carol Reardon shows, Jomini's work was only one voice in what ultimately became a lively and contentious national discourse about how the North should conduct war at a time when warfare itself was rapidly changing. She argues that the absence of a strong intellectual foundation for the conduct of war at its start-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781469601724 |