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The Ultimate Experience : Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000 /

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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harari, Yuval Noah (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:
History.
Cultural History.
History of Early Modern Europe.
History of Military.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Social History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Civilization > History.
Imperialism.
Military history.
Social history.
World history.
Europe > History-1492-
Electronic books.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XV, 386 pages)
ISBN:9780230583887
DOI:10.1057/9780230583887