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Empire of Chance: The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things
Anders Engberg-Pedersen
Empire of Chance: The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things
Anders Engberg-Pedersen
Anders Engberg-Pedersen shows how the Napoleonic Wars inspired a new discourse on knowledge in the West. Soldiers returning from battle were forced to reconsider what it is possible to know and how decisions are made in a fog of imperfect knowledge. Chance no longer appeared exceptional but normative—a prism for understanding the modern world.
336 pages
Mídia | Livros Hardcover Book (Livro com lombada e capa dura) |
Lançado | 10 de março de 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9780674967649 |
Editoras | Harvard University Press |
Genre | Chronological Period > 19th Century |
Páginas | 336 |
Dimensões | 165 × 245 × 31 mm · 630 g |
Idioma | English |
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