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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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Abstract:
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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'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 Read more...
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