Practicing history : selected essays / Barbara W. Tuchman.
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- Tuchman, Barbara W. (författare)
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Alternativt namn: Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim
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Alternativt namn: Tākman, Bārbārā V.
- ISBN 0345303636
- Publicerad: New York : Ballantine Books, 1982
- Engelska vi, 306 s.
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Sammanfattning
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Stäng
- The craft. In search of history ; When does history happen? ; History by the ounce ; The historian as artist ; The historian's opportunity ; Problems in writing the biography of General Stilwell ; The houses of research ; Biography as a prism of history -- The yield. Japan : a clinical note ; Campaign train ; What Madrid reads ; "Perdicaris alive or raisuli dead" ; The final solution ; Israel : land of unlimited impossibilities ; Woodrow Wilson on Freud's couch ; How we entered World War I ; Israel's swift sword ; If Mao had come to Washington ; The assimilationist dilemma : Ambassador Morgenthau's story ; Kissinger : self-portrait ; Mankind's better moments -- Learning from history. Is history a guide to the future? ; Vietnam. When, why, and how to get out ; Coalition in Vietnam : not worth one more life ; The citizen versus the military ; Historical clues to present discontents ; Generalship ; Why policy-makers do not listen ; Watergate and the Presidency. Should we abolish the Presidency? ; A fear of the remedy ; A letter to the House of Representatives ; Defusing the Presidency ; On our birthday : America as idea.
- The noted historian's essays, written over thirty-five years, include comments on the writing of history, shorter historical and journalistic pieces, and essays on the importance of history and historical awareness
Ämnesord
- Historiografi (sao)
- Historiography (LCSH)
- Historiography (LCSH)
Indexterm och SAB-rubrik
- K:k Historieforskningens historia
Klassifikation
- 907/.2 (DDC)
- K:k (kssb/8)
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