Enlightened War

Enlightened War
Author: Elisabeth Krimmer,Patricia Anne Simpson
Publsiher: Camden House
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781571134950

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New essays exploring the relationship between warfare and Enlightenment thought both historically and in the present.

Spiritual Warfare

Spiritual Warfare
Author: Jed McKenna
Publsiher: Wisefool Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2008-02-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780980184808

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Guns and bombs are children’s toys. A true war wages, and you’re invited. IT’S AN INVITATION you may not be able to accept if you want to, or decline if you don’t. It’s an invitation to fight in a war like no other; a war where loss is counted as gain, surrender as victory, and where the enemy you must face, an enemy of unimaginable superiority, is you. Contains Bonus Material.

The Enlightened Soldier Scharnhorst and the Milit rische Gesellschaft in Berlin 1801 1805 Mit Portr 1 Publ New York usw Praeger 1989 XV 244 S 8

The Enlightened Soldier  Scharnhorst and the Milit  rische Gesellschaft in Berlin  1801 1805   Mit Portr    1  Publ     New York  usw    Praeger  1989   XV  244 S  8
Author: Charles E. White
Publsiher: Praeger
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: UOM:39015021949840

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This volume explores the essence of German military professionalism as exemplified by the nineteenth century Prussian German Staff. The study focuses on the most important Prussian military reformer--Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, who in 1801 founded the Militarische Gesellschaft (Military Society) in Berlin. The Gesellschaft became the focal point for the transformation of the Prussian army from a robotic war machine into a modern fighting force that was instrumental in defeating Napolean in 1813 and in 1815. The author examines the following elements of this military society: its membership; the specifics of its agenda; the intellect, imagination, and habits of thought, reflection, and objective analysis of its members; Scharnhorst's particular contributions.

The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment

The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment
Author: J.B. Shank
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2008-09-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780226749471

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Nothing is considered more natural than the connection between Isaac Newton’s science and the modernity that came into being during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Terms like “Newtonianism” are routinely taken as synonyms for “Enlightenment” and “modern” thought, yet the particular conjunction of these terms has a history full of accidents and contingencies. Modern physics, for example, was not the determined result of the rational unfolding of Newton’s scientific work in the eighteenth century, nor was the Enlightenment the natural and inevitable consequence of Newton’s eighteenth-century reception. Each of these outcomes, in fact, was a contingent event produced by the particular historical developments of the early eighteenth century. A comprehensive study of public culture, The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment digsbelow the surface of the commonplace narratives that link Newton with Enlightenment thought to examine the actual historical changes that brought them together in eighteenth-century time and space. Drawing on the full range of early modern scientific sources, from studied scientific treatises and academic papers to book reviews, commentaries, and private correspondence, J. B. Shank challenges the widely accepted claim that Isaac Newton’s solitary genius is the reason for his iconic status as the father of modern physics and the philosophemovement.

Europe 1715 1919

Europe 1715 1919
Author: Shirley Elson Roessler,Reny Miklos
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2003-12-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780742568792

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Europe 1715-1919 explores the tumultuous period in European history between the Age of Enlightenment and World War I. By integrating political, social, economic, and cultural history, Shirley Elson Roessler and Reny Miklos provide an entertaining and comprehensive account of the emergence of modern Europe. With clear and eloquent prose, the book explains the ideas of the Enlightenment and their effect on the social fabric of Europe, the watershed of the French Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, the advances of the Industrial Revolution, and the centrifugal forces of nationalism that led, ultimately, to the disaster of World War I. Eminently readable, Europe 1715-1919 will appeal to students, scholars, and all interested in the history of modern Europe.

War Society and Enlightenment

War  Society and Enlightenment
Author: Patrick J. Speelman
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 770
Release: 2005-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789047407584

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This volume is the first compilation and only modern edition of General Lloyd's political, economic and historical treatises and military memoirs. As such it provides fresh insight into the study of war and society during the Age of the Enlightenment.

The Military Enlightenment

The Military Enlightenment
Author: Christy L. Pichichero
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2021-01-15
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1501752065

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The Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Christy Pichichero makes a striking discovery: the Geneva Conventions, post-traumatic stress disorder, the military "band of brothers," and soldierly heroism all found their antecedents in the eighteenth-century French armed forces. Readers of The Military Enlightenment will be startled to learn of the many ways in which French military officers, administrators, and medical personnel advanced ideas of human and political rights, military psychology, and social justice.

Conquering Peace

Conquering Peace
Author: Stella Ghervas
Publsiher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674975262

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A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified continent in attempts since the eighteenth century to engineer lasting peace. Political peace in Europe has historically been elusive and ephemeral. Stella Ghervas shows that since the eighteenth century, European thinkers and leaders in pursuit of lasting peace fostered the idea of European unification. Bridging intellectual and political history, Ghervas draws on the work of philosophers from Abbé de Saint-Pierre, who wrote an early eighteenth-century plan for perpetual peace, to Rousseau and Kant, as well as statesmen such as Tsar Alexander I, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Robert Schuman, and Mikhail Gorbachev. She locates five major conflicts since 1700 that spurred such visionaries to promote systems of peace in Europe: the War of the Spanish Succession, the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Each moment generated a “spirit” of peace among monarchs, diplomats, democratic leaders, and ordinary citizens. The engineers of peace progressively constructed mechanisms and institutions designed to prevent future wars. Arguing for continuities from the ideals of the Enlightenment, through the nineteenth-century Concert of Nations, to the institutions of the European Union and beyond, Conquering Peace illustrates how peace as a value shaped the idea of a unified Europe long before the EU came into being. Today the EU is widely criticized as an obstacle to sovereignty and for its democratic deficit. Seen in the long-range perspective of the history of peacemaking, however, this European society of states emerges as something else entirely: a step in the quest for a less violent world.