The Proud Tower A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890 1914 Trade paperback - 1996
by Barbara W. Tuchman
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- Title The Proud Tower A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890 1914
- Author Barbara W. Tuchman
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition 1st Ballantine B
- Condition Used Very Good
- Pages 608
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House Trade Paperbacks, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date August 1996
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 213705
- ISBN 9780345405012 / 0345405013
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.4 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 3.56 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Chronological Period: Modern
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Library of Congress subjects History, Modern - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 65023074
- Dewey Decimal Code 909.82
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From the publisher
From the jacket flap
--Barbara W. Tuchman
The fateful quarter-century leading up to the World War I was a time when the world of Privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of Protest was heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate. The age was the climax of a century of the most accelerated rate of change in history, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny.
In The Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state. With an artist's selectivity, Tuchman bings to vivid life the people, places, and events that shaped the years leading up to the Great War: the Edwardian aristocracy and the end of their reign; the Anarchists of Europe and America, who voiced the protest of the oppressed; Germany, as portrayed through the figure of the self-depicted Hero, Richard Strauss; the sudden gorgeous blaze of Diaghilev's Russian Ballet and Stravinsky's music; the Dreyfus Affair; the two Peace Conferences at the Hague; and, finally, the youth, ideals, enthusiasm, and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized in the moment when the heroic Jean Jaures was shot to death on the night the War began and an epoch ended.
"Tuchman [was] a distinguished historian who [wrote] her books with a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish. . . . It would be impossible to read The Proud Tower without pleasure and admiration."
--The New York Times
"Tuchman proved in The Guns of August that shecould write better military history than most men. In this sequel, she tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding, eschewing both the sweeping generalizations of a Toynbee and the minute-by-minute simplicisms of a Walter Lord."
--Time
