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Practicing history : selected essays
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Practicing history : selected essays / by Barbara W. Tuchman |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf
, 1981 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (vi-306 p.) |
| Sujets : |
- 1. 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
- 2. 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
- 3. 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
- Difusing the presidency
- On our birthday- America as idea