Empire of Chance : : The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things / Anders Engberg-Pedersen.

• VerfasserIn: Engberg-Pedersen, Anders,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 Online-Resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: The Prism of War --; The Geometry of War: Siege Architecture and Narrative Form --; State of War 1800: Topography and Chance --; Modus Operandi: On Touch, Tact, and Tactics --; Exercising Judgment: Technologies of Experience --; Paper Empires: Military Cartography and the Management of Space --; The Poetics of War: Cartography and the Realist Novel --; Conclusion: The Disorder of Things --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674425415
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674425415
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Anders Engberg-Pedersen.

Anders Engberg-Pedersen shows how the Napoleonic Wars inspired a new discourse on knowledge in the West. Soldiers returning from battle were forced to reconsider what it is possible to know and how decisions are made in a fog of imperfect knowledge. Chance no longer appeared exceptional but normative-a prism for understanding the modern world.