Clausewitz in his time : essays in the cultural and intellectual history of thinking about war / / Peter Paret

• Autore: Paret Peter
• Pubblicazione: New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (150 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.02
• Soggetto topico: Military art and science - History; War (Philosophy) - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 his career in a complex military society, together with that of other students of war, both friends and rivals, providing a broad perspective that leads to significant documents so far unknown or ignored. They add to our understanding of Clausewitz's early ideas and their expansion into a comprehensi
• Titolo autorizzato: Clausewitz in his time
• ISBN: 1-78238-582-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818960303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II