Empire of Chance The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things

Name: Empire of Chance The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things
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ISBN: 9780674967649

ISBN-10: 067496764X

ISBN-13: 9780674967649

Edition: 2015

Authors: Anders Engberg-Pedersen

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Napoleonâe(tm)s campaigns were the most complex military undertakings in history before the nineteenth century. But the defining battles of Austerlitz, Borodino, and Waterloo changed more than the nature of warfare. Concepts of chance, contingency, and probability became permanent fixtures in the Westâe(tm)s understanding of how the world works. Empire of Chance examines anew the place of war in the history of Western thought, showing how the Napoleonic Wars inspired a new discourse on knowledge.Soldiers returning from the battlefields were forced to reconsider basic questions about what it is possible to know and how decisions are made in a fog of imperfect knowledge. Artists and…

Book details

Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/10/2015
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Anders Engberg-Pedersen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark.