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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890-1914 Book

The Proud Tower : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780345405012 : 0345405013 : 01 Sep 1996 : The classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with �a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish� (The New York Times)�from the Pulitzer Prize�winning author of The Guns of August During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was �heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.� In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid...Read More

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    THE PROUD TOWER by Barbara Tuchman examines the Western World of approximately 100 years ago. Technologically the world was a very different from today, but the strifes between economic groups and among nations bears many similarities to our own time. Tuchman examines the economic, social, political, and technological world of the period 1890-1914. By this period, the United States had become an important player in world affairs. The Haymarket Affair in Chicago fueled the development of international anarchism which led to the assasinations of political figures in Russia, Italy, France and lastly President McKinley in the United States. Recommended in Laura Berquist U.S. History Geography and American Literature Author: Barbara W. TuchmanFormat: 544 pages, PaperbackPublisher: Ballantine Books 1st Ballantine Books edition (August 27, 1996) ISBN: 978-0345405012

  • 0345405013
  • 9780345405012
  • Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
  • 1 January 1997
  • Ballantine Books Inc.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 544
  • 1st Ballantine Books Ed
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