The Ultimate Experience: Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000

by Yuval Noah Harari

Book Overview

For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230536921
• ISBN13: 9780230536920
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.6"