It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read Machiavelli and the Problems of Military Force by Sean Erwin
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Central to Niccolò Machiavelli's writing is the argument that a successful state is one that prefers to lose with its own arms (arma propriis) than to win with the arms of others (arma alienis). This book sheds light on Machiavelli's critiques of military force and provides an important reinterpretation of his military theory. Sean Erwin argues that the distinction between arma propriis and arma alienis poses a central problem to Machiavelli's case for why modern political institutions offer modes of political existence that ancient ones did not. Starting from the influence of Lucretius and...
Machiavelli and the Problems of Military Force by Sean Erwin is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.
This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read Machiavelli and the Problems of Military Force aloud.
Machiavelli and the Problems of Military Force is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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