Understanding War Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military Power / Peter Paret.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paret, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831.

War.

Military history, Modern.

Military art and science.

Military art and science--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 229 pages)

Edition:

1st Princeton pbk. [ed.].

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1993, c1992.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

These essays provide an authoritative introduction to Carl von Clausewitz and enlarge the history of war by joining it to the history of ideas and institutions and linking it with intellectual biography.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

ONE. Military Power

TWO. The Relationship between the American Revolutionary War and European Military Thought and Practice

THREE. Nationalism and the Sense of Military Obligation

FOUR. Conscription and the End of the Ancien Regime in France and Prussia

FIVE. Napoleon as Enemy

SIX. Jena and Auerstedt

SEVEN. Clausewitz: Life and Thought

EIGHT. Two Letters on Strategy

NINE. Clausewitz as Historian

TEN. Continuity and Discontinuity in Some Interpretations by Tocqueville and Clausewitz

ELEVEN. Kleist and Clausewitz: A Comparative Sketch

TWELVE. Clausewitz's Politics

THIRTEEN. "A Proposition Not a Solution"—Clausewitz's Attempt To Become Prussian Minister at the Court of St. James

FOURTEEN. Reactions to Revolution

FIFTEEN. An Unknown Letter by Clausewitz

SIXTEEN. The History of War and the New Military History

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691216034

0691216037

OCLC:

1178754695