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The proud tower. A portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914. [With plates including portraits and a bibliography.]

Looks at the history of society and culture in the years leading up to World War I.

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  • ""The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in it." --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 Jaurè s 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 thatshe could 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."
  • "Looks at the history of society and culture in the years leading up to World War I."@en
  • "Looks at the history of society and culture in the years leading up to World War I."
  • "The author presents the fateful quarter-century leading up to the War, concentrating on the social aspects, not the state aspects, of history."
  • "The fateful quarter-century leading up to the Great war comes magnificently to life in these pages."@en

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  • "History"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Weltgeschichte 1890-1914"

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  • "The Proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914"
  • "De trotse toren : een portret van de jaren voor de Eerste Wereldoorlog, 1890-1914"
  • "The proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war ; 1890-1914"
  • "The Proud tower. A portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914"
  • "The proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war : 1890 - 1914"
  • "The proud tower. A portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914. [With plates including portraits and a bibliography.]"@en
  • "The proud power : a portrait of the world before the war : 1890-1914"
  • "The proud tower : A portrait of the world before the war 1890-1914"
  • "The proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war : 1890- 1914"
  • "The Proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war (1890 - 1914)"
  • "The proud tower : a portrait of the world before the War, 1890-1914"
  • "The Proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war 1890-1914"
  • "De trotse toren : Europa en de Verenigde Staten aan de vooravond van de eerste wereldoorlog, 1890-1914"
  • "The proud tower a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914"@en
  • "De trotse toren : Europa en de Verenigde Staten aan de vooravond van de Eerste Wereldoorlog, 1890-1914"
  • "The proud tower: a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914"
  • "A portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914"@en
  • "The proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war 1890-1914"
  • "The proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war 1890-1914"@en
  • "The proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war, 1890 - 1914"
  • "The Proud Tower : a Portrait of the World, 1890-1914"@en
  • "The Proud tower. A portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914. [With plates.]"@en
  • "The proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war: 1890-1914"
  • "The proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914"@en
  • "The proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914"
  • "The proud tower a portrait of the world before the war ; 1890 - 1914"
  • "The Proud Tower : A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914"
  • "The proud tower; a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914"@en
  • "The proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war ; 1890 - 1914"
  • "The proud of power : a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914"
  • "The proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war 1890 - 1914"
  • "The Proud tower: a portrait of the world before the War. 1890-1914"
  • "The proud tower : A portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914"
  • "The proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war : 1890-1914"@en
  • "The proud tower : a portrait of the world before the war : 1890-1914"
  • "A portrait of the world before the War,1890-1914"@en

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