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Ultimate Experience Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000

Harari, Y.
Innbundet / 2008 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780230536920
Publisert
2008-03-07
Utgiver
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Palgrave Macmillan
Vekt
666 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, UU, UP, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Harari, Y.

Biographical note

YUVAL NOAH HARARI  is a military historian specializing in the study of war experience and war culture. He lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Ultimate Experience Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000

Harari, Y.
Innbundet / 2008 / Engelsk
Harari, Y.
Innbundet / 2008 / Engelsk
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For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory.
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For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory.
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Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION – WAR AS REVELATION, 1865-2000 PART II: 1450-1740 – THE SUPREMACY OF MIND Suffering, Death and Revelation in Early Modern Culture The Absence of Revelation from Early Modern Military Memoirs Why War Revealed Nothing PART III: 1740-1865 – THE REVOLT OF THE BODY Bodies Begin to Think The Rise of the Common Soldier The Rise of the Revelatory Interpretation of War Conclusions: The Things Which Make You Know, 1865-2000 Works Cited
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'Like a good detective story, Harari presents us with facts and clues which seem to lead towards one conclusion, only to puncture our certainties. This is a book of exraordinary wit, erudition, and range.' - Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College, University of London
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For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory.
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For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory.
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Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION – WAR AS REVELATION, 1865-2000 PART II: 1450-1740 – THE SUPREMACY OF MIND Suffering, Death and Revelation in Early Modern Culture The Absence of Revelation from Early Modern Military Memoirs Why War Revealed Nothing PART III: 1740-1865 – THE REVOLT OF THE BODY Bodies Begin to Think The Rise of the Common Soldier The Rise of the Revelatory Interpretation of War Conclusions: The Things Which Make You Know, 1865-2000 Works Cited
Les mer
'Like a good detective story, Harari presents us with facts and clues which seem to lead towards one conclusion, only to puncture our certainties. This is a book of exraordinary wit, erudition, and range.' - Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College, University of London
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780230536920
Publisert
2008-03-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
Vekt
666 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Harari, Y.

Biographical note

YUVAL NOAH HARARI  is a military historian specializing in the study of war experience and war culture. He lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

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