| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 134 pages) |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-130) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831 -- Influence
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Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831
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| SUBJECT |
Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831 fast |
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Military art and science -- History.
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War (Philosophy) -- History
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Strategy.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Military art and science
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War (Philosophy)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781782385820 |
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1782385827 |
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