Description: Further DetailsTitle: Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear AgeCondition: NewISBN-10: 0691027641EAN: 9780691027647ISBN: 9780691027647Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/21/1986Description: 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 from the earlier book; four others have been extensively revised. The rest--twenty-two essays--are new. The subjects addressed range from major theorists and political and military leaders to impersonal forces. Machiavelli, Clausewitz, and Marx and Engels are discussed, as are Napoleon, Churchill, and Mao. Other essays trace the interaction of theory and experience over generations--the evolution of American strategy, for instance, or the emergence of revolutionary war in the modern world.Still others analyze the strategy of particular conflicts--the First and Second World Wars--or the relationship between technology, policy, and war in the nuclear age. Whatever its theme, each essay places the specifics of military thought and action in their political, social, and economic environment. Together the contributors have produced a book that reinterprets and illuminates war, one of the most powerful forces in history and one that cannot be controlled in the future without an understanding of its past.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 1304gContributor: Gordon A. Craig (Edited by), Peter Paret (Edited by), Russell F. Weigley (Contributions by), Felix Gilbert (Edited by)Genre: Law & PoliticsAuthor: Gordon A. CraigRelease Year: 1986 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
Title: Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
ISBN-10: 0691027641
EAN: 9780691027647
ISBN: 9780691027647
Release Date: 03/21/1986
Release Year: 1986
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Felix Gilbert (Edited by)
Genre: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 952 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Civilization, Military / Strategy
Item Height: 1.9 in
Publication Year: 1986
Item Weight: 46 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: History
Author: Russell F. Weigley
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
