The Ultimate Experience
Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000
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Product details:
- Edition number 2008
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication 7 March 2008
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9780230536920
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages386 pages
- Size 216x140 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XV, 386 p. Illustrations, black & white 0
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Short description:
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.
'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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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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