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Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
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Imagined Battles: Reflections of War in European Art
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In this wide-ranging study, Peter Paret discusses forty-seven paintings and prints as complex documents of war in Europe since the Renaissance, of society's efforts to come to terms with the reality of war, and of the artist's use of war as a metaphor for the human condition. The images include works by such major artists as Uccello, Gericault, ...
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Clausewitz and the State: The Man, His Theories, and His Times
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Originally published in 1976, "Clausewitz and the State" presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the significant thinkers of modern Europe. Peter Paret combines social and military history and psychological interpretation with a study of Clausewitz's military theories and of his unduly neglected historical and political writing. This timely ...
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Clausewitz and the state
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Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution from the Hoover Institution Archives
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Peter Paret, Paul Paret, Beth Irwin Lewis
With powerful, often shocking immediacy, the 317 posters reproduced and discussed in this volume document the political and military conflicts of our century. These works reveal their meaning most clearly when we do not relegate them to the function of illustrating a text or see them merely as specimens of the applied arts, but take them seriously ...
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Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military Power
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These essays provide an authoritative 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 intellectual biography. Reflecting Peter Paret's three decades of study of Clausewitz and of the history of war, they examine Clausewitz's theoretical work in the ...
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The Berlin Secession: Modernism and Its Enemies in Imperial Germany
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An Artist Against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938
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Paret, author of GERMAN ENCOUNTERS WITH MODERNISM, examines the ways in which art collided with nationalism under the evolving Nazi regime. Using the then heralded German Expressionist sculptor Ernst Barlach as a centerpiece, AN ARTIST AGAINST THE THIRD REICH recounts how Nazi Germany assumed control over the arts for propaganda purposes and how ...
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Historical and Political Writings
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Carl von Clausewitz's major theoretical work, On War, has retained its freshness and relevance since it first appeared 160 years ago. Clausewitz was also a wide-ranging, innovative historian--his acerbic history of Prussia before 1806 became an underground classic long before it could be published--and a combative political essayist, whose ...
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Art as History: Episodes in the Culture and Politics of Nineteenth-Century Germany
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Paintings and graphics, novels and poems are historical sources as well as aesthetic objects. Artists themselves become historians when they interpret the pastby painting a historical scene, for instance, or by discussing earlier times in a novel. Artists both reflect and shape their environment. These concepts underlie Peter Parets new study of ...
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German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945
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Offers new perspectives on the history of German art from the 1840s to 1940s.
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Guerrillas in the 1960's.
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Peter Paret, John Willard Shy
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Frederick the Great: A Profile
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French revolutionary warfare from Indochina to Algeria : the analysis of a political and military doctrine.
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John Hans Ostwald, architect
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Hans Ostwald, Donald Reay, Peter Paret
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Yorck and the era of the Prussian reform, 1807-1815.
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Innovation and reform in warfare.
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"The enemy within"--Max Liebermann as president of the Prussian Academy of Arts
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