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      The Cognitive Challenge of War: Prussia 1806

      Peter Paret

      Responding to the enemy’s innovation in war presents problems to soldiers and societies of all times. This book traces Napoleon’s victory over Prussia in 1806 and Prussia’s effort to recover…

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      Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military Power

      Peter Paret

      Includes essays that provide an introduction to Carl von Clausewitz and enlarge the history of war by joining it to the history of ideas and institutions and linking it with…

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      Clausewitz and the State: The Man, His Theories, and His Times

      Peter Paret

      Presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the significant thinkers of modern Europe. This book combines social and military history and psychological interpretation with a study of Clausewitz’s military theories…

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      Yorck and the Era of Prussian Reform

      Peter Paret

      A new view of the years of Prussian reform is presented here, showing the military impact of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France on Prussia, the nature of the challenge, the efforts…

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      Yorck and the Era of Prussian Reform

      Peter Paret

      A new view of the years of Prussian reform is presented here, showing the military impact of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France on Prussia, the nature of the challenge, the efforts…

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      Frederick the Great: A Profile

      Peter Paret

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      Clausewitz in His Time: Essays in the Cultural and Intellectual History of Thinking about War

      Peter Paret

      Far from being a detached theorist, Carl von Clausewitz was as intensely aware of the cultural and intellectual currents of his time as he was engaged in its political and…

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      The Berlin Secession

      Peter Paret (Princeton University, New Jersey)

      Portrays the group of artists in pre-World War I Germany who supported the tenets of modern art against the disapproval of the government academy and Emperor William II.

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      An Artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938

      Peter Paret (Princeton University, New Jersey)

      Peter Paret’s study of an artist in a time of crisis combines the history of modern Germany and the history of modern art.

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      German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945

      Peter Paret (Princeton University, New Jersey)

      Peter Paret traces the reception of modern art, from the 1840s to the 1940s, through the lens of social and political developments in Germany. Addressing broad cultural topics, it opens…

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      German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945

      Peter Paret (Princeton University, New Jersey)

      Peter Paret traces the reception of modern art, from the 1840s to the 1940s, through the lens of social and political developments in Germany. Addressing broad cultural topics, it opens…

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      An Artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938

      Peter Paret (Princeton University, New Jersey)

      The conflict between National Socialism and Ernst Barlach is an unusual episode in the history of Hitler’s efforts to rid Germany of ‘international modernism’. Peter Paret’s fine study of an…

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      Myth and Modernity: Barlach’s Drawings on the Nibelungen

      Peter Paret,Helga Thieme

      In interpreting its own age art often turns to the past. At the beginning of the twentieth century one of these encounters between present and past was prompted by the…

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      Krieg, Geschichte, Theorie: Zwei Studien uber Clausewitz

      Peter Paret,Hans Delbruck

      Clausewitz schrieb mehr uber die Geschichte als uber die Theorie des Krieges. Dieses Buch vereint zwei Aufsatze: Der erste stammt aus der Feder von Hans Delbruck (1848-1929), einem bedeutenden Historiker…

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      The Age of German Liberation 1795-1815

      Friedrich Meinecke

      This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…

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      The Age of German Liberation 1795-1815

      Friedrich Meinecke

      This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…

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      Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

      War cannot be controlled in future without an understanding of its past. These essays analyse war, its strategic characteristics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries.

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      Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

      War cannot be controlled in future without an understanding of its past. These essays analyse war, its strategic characteristics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries.

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      Carl von Clausewitz: Historical and Political Writings

      Carl von Clausewitz

      Contains selections from Clausewitz’s historical writings and the majority of his essays and notes on political topics –Preface.

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      Carl von Clausewitz: Historical and Political Writings

      Carl von Clausewitz

      Contains selections from Clausewitz’s historical writings and the majority of his essays and notes on political topics –Preface.

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      On War

      Carl von Clausewitz

      Intends to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy.

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      On War

      Carl von Clausewitz

      This abridged edition of On War by Beatrice Heuser, using the acclaimed translation by Michael Howard and Peter Paret, selects the central books in which Clausewitz’s views on the nature…

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