Understanding War
Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military Power
1st Edition
Published on 7. September 2020
252 pages
978-0-691-21603-4 (ISBN)
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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.
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Peter Paret, Professor in the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, is the editor and translator, with Daniel Moran, of Carl von Clausewitz: Historical and Political Writings (Princeton), and the author, with Beth Irwin Lewis and Paul Paret, of Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution from the Archives of the Hoover Institution (Princeton).
Content
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: War and Its Institutions
- 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
- Part Two: Clausewitz
- 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
- Part Three: The History of War
- Sixteen: The History of War and the New Military History
- Index
