Empire Of Chance: The Napoleonic Wars And The Disorder Of Things

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.

• | Author: Anders Engberg-Pedersen
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 10, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 067496764X
• | ISBN-13: 9780674967649