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The ultimate experience : battlefield revelations and the making of modern war culture, 1450-2000
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The ultimate experience : battlefield revelations and the making of modern war culture, 1450-2000

Author: Yuval N Harari
Publisher: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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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.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Yuval N Harari
ISBN: 9780230536920 0230536921
OCLC Number: 189667855
Description: xv, 386 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Suffering, death, and revelation in early modern culture --
The absence of revelation from early modern military memoirs --
Why war revealed nothing --
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.
Responsibility: Yuval Noah Harari.
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'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 Read more...

 
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