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000732140 1001_ $$aEngberg-Pedersen, Anders,$$eauthor.
000732140 24510 $$aEmpire of chance :$$bthe Napoleonic Wars and the disorder of things /$$cAnders Engberg-Pedersen.
000732140 264_1 $$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c[2015].
000732140 264_4 $$c©2015.
000732140 300__ $$a1 online resource (x, 324 pages) :$$billustrations, maps
000732140 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent
000732140 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia
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000732140 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000732140 5050_ $$aIntroduction : the prism of war -- The geometry of war : siege architecture and narrative form -- State of war 1800 : topography and chance -- Modus operandi : on touch, tact, and tactics -- Exercising judgment : technologies of experience -- Paper empires : military cartography and the management of space -- The poetics of war : cartography and the realist novel -- Conclusion : the disorder of things.
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000732140 520__ $$a"Empire of Chance examines the place of war in the history of knowledge. It argues that with the Napoleonic Wars, chance came to be installed as the basic operative principle of history. Attending to a vast array of fields and disciplines -- military theory, literature, philosophy, cartography, mathematics, and pedagogy -- the book charts the momentous shift in the thinking of war that took place around 1800. It examines the efforts to rethink the state of war as a variegated epistemic regime of chance events, contingencies, conjectures, and probabilities, and it tells the story of the inventions devised to handle and manage it. Juxtaposing traditional philosophy and military theory, literature and cartography, war games and historiography, knowledge and poetics, Engberg-Pedersen reveals how the Napoleonic Wars served as a catalyst for the emergence of a worldly thought that turns its attention outward to the flux of the empirical world in order to come to grips with the pervasive disorder of things. War came to be conceived not as an exceptional state, but as a cipher of modernity"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000732140 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record.
000732140 650_0 $$aChance.
000732140 650_0 $$aCoincidence.
000732140 650_0 $$aMilitary art and science$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000732140 650_0 $$aNapoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.
000732140 651_0 $$aEurope$$xHistory$$y1789-1815.
000732140 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aEngberg-Pedersen, Anders.$$tEmpire of chance.$$dCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015$$z9780674967649$$w(DLC)  2014028441$$w(OCoLC)893557576
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000732140 85640 $$3Harvard University Press$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/9780674425415$$zOnline Access
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