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Empire of Chance: The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things

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

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Empire of Chance: The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things 2015, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674967649

Hardcover