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Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, Includes bibliographical references and index. The participants in the Bloomington Workshop on the theme of care at Indiana University helped me to sharpen my arguments. Bell for their mentorship, support, and keen observations and suggestions regarding my work in the past years. I would also like to thank the two anonymous readers of the manuscript for their detailed and constructive critiques that helped me to improve the work in critical ways.
Thomas, you are my rock, my partner, and in all ways my better half. From stem to stern, I could not have written this book without you. Marion, you came into the world in the same year as this book. Thank you. This book is for you. Courtesy of Bill Nelson Maps. Burn all your books. Recognizing and lamenting the atrocities of war had become an expectation, even among members of the armed forces.
Deviation from this perspective was frowned upon. Unable to hold back his emotion and horror, he turned away to vomit. The answer is unequivocally no. The notion of military enlightenment becomes intelligible in view of a historical definition of the Enlightenment.
This constitutes a new understanding of military enlightenment and of the French Enlightenment more broadly. Scholars of the latter have largely been unaware of or have not attributed sufficient importance to the centrality of war and the military in Enlightenment thought and reform. Similarly, military historians have underestimated the scope and culture of the Military Enlightenment. The Military Enlightenment was thus a part of the broader phenomenon of Enlightenment, following its general chronology, engaging in the same narrative and media, and embracing esprit philosophique in order to make war and military endeavors reflective of an enlightened age.
