Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989)

Autore di Uno specchio lontano: Un secolo di avventure e di calamita Il Trecento

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Barbara W. Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram, and international fame with The Guns of August--a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. There followed other successes, including The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also mostra altro awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror, The March of Folly, and The First Salute. mostra meno

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The Coming of the Great War

Opere di Barbara W. Tuchman

Popolari Recenti

Uno specchio lontano: Un secolo di avventure e di calamita Il Trecento (1978) 7,194 copie

I Cannoni D'Agosto (1962) 6,636 copie

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam (1984) 2,850 copie

The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 (1966) 2,791 copie

The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution (1988) 2,056 copie

The Zimmermann Telegram (1958) 1,515 copie

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 (1971) 1,314 copie

Practicing History: Selected Essays (1981) 985 copie

Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour (1956) 828 copie

Barbara W. Tuchman : The Guns of August, The Proud Tower (1995) 296 copie

Notes from China (1972) 105 copie

The Mirror of the Past: A Distant Mirror; and The March of Folly (1997) 32 copie

The Book (1980) 19 copie

A Distant Mirror, Part 1: The Calamitous 14th Century (1984) 7 copie

The March of Folly / A Distant Mirror / The Guns of August / The Proud Tower 3 copie

Een ezel stoot zich in het gemeen... 3 copie

A Distant Mirror, Part 2: The Calamitous 14th Century (1987) 2 copie

Cardinal 2 copie

"Perdicaris Alive or Raisuli Dead," American Heritage, Vol. 10, August 1959, pp. 18-21, 98-101 1 copia

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century / The Guns of August (2 Complete Books) 1 copia

The Alternative to Arms Control (1982) 1 copia

The Palestine Question in American History (1978) 1 copia

August 1914 1 copia

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Opere correlate

A World of Ideas : Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our… (1989) — Interviewee — 550 copie

Il mercante di Prato (1957) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 485 copie

A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage (1985) — Collaboratore — 465 copie

The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Collaboratore — 142 copie

An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Collaboratore — 133 copie

The Anarchists (1964) — Collaboratore — 112 copie

Summer: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (2005) — Collaboratore — 38 copie

Pulitzer Prize Reader (1961) — Collaboratore — 27 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico: Tuchman, Barbara W.
Nome legale: Wertheim Tuchman, Barbara
Altri nomi: Tuchman, Barbara
Data di nascita: 1912-01-30
Data di morte: 1989-02-06
Luogo di sepoltura: Temple Israel Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: New York, New York, USA
Luogo di morte: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Causa della morte: stroke
Luogo di residenza: New York, New York, USA
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Cos Cob, Connecticut, USA
Istruzione: Radcliffe College (BA|1933)
Walden School
Attività lavorative: historica
Journalist
Writer
Organizzazioni: Society of American Historians
Authors Guild
Office of War Information
Premi e riconoscimenti: Jefferson Lecture (1980)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1971, president 1979)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1978)
Pulitzer Prize (1963, 1972)
National Book Award in History (1980)
St Louis Literary Award (1971) (mostra tutto 8)
Order of Leopold First Class
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal (1978)
Agente: William Loverd
Breve biografia: Writies about : Middle Ages, Renaissance, 1900

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Discussioni

April-June Theme Read: War and Regions in Conflict in Reading Globally (Febbraio 10)

GROUP READ: The Guns of August in 2013 Category Challenge (Settembre 2013)

Recensioni

Barbara W Tuchman: The Guns of August & The Proud… di Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

In this LOA volume, Barbara Tuchman's "The Proud Tower" & "The Guns of August" are contained here. History students studying the world leading up to the start of World War I will find Tuchman's work a solid understanding of how Europe failed to recognize the serious ramifications of ignoring warning signs that led to the horrific butchery of war.

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walterhistory | 2 altre recensioni | May 18, 2024 |

Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the… di Barbara W. Tuchman

The background includes a whirlwind of characters quickly described before moving on to the next blur of scenery. It took a while to get around to the details surrounding the Balfour declaration.

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bread2u | 14 altre recensioni | May 15, 2024 |