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Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
(Edited By Peter Paret)
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Description for Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
paperback. A collection of essays that analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. Editor(s): Paret, Peter; Craig, Gordon A.; Gilbert, Felix. Num Pages: 950 pages. BIC Classification: JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 171 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1320.
The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice of war from the Renaissance to the present. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age takes the first part of its title from an earlier collection of essays, published by Princeton University Press in 1943, which became a classic of historical scholarship. Three essays are repinted ... Read more
The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice of war from the Renaissance to the present. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age takes the first part of its title from an earlier collection of essays, published by Princeton University Press in 1943, which became a classic of historical scholarship. Three essays are repinted ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
950
Condition
New
Number of Pages
952
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691027647
SKU
V9780691027647
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99-15
About (Edited By Peter Paret)
Peter Paret (1924–2020) was the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University. His books include Clausewitz and the State: The Man, His Theories, and His Times (Princeton). Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005) was the J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Stanford University. Felix Gilbert (1905–1991) was professor emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at ... Read more
Reviews for Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
"[The essays] are authoritative and convincing. Taken together, they demonstrate the complexity of strategy and the importance of it being closely integrated with politics."
New York Times Book Review
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