Practicing history: selected essays

by Tuchman, Barbara W., (Barbara Wertheim)

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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.

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Full title :Practicing history : selected essays / by Barbara W. Tuchman.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1982, ©1981.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ballantine Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1982, ©1981.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (346 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780307798558, 0307798550
oclc:ocn772868159
LC Classification:D13
Dewey Decimal:907/.2

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.

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Aufsatzsammlung Geschichtsdenken Histoire -- 20e siècle Historiography HISTORY -- Modern HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century HISTORY -- Study & Teaching