Full name: Practicing History: Selected Essays

Author: Barbara W. Tuchman Year: 1981 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Essays Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780345911018 9780345303639 0345911016 0345303636

From thoughtful pieces on the historian's role to striking insights into America's past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. Here is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime spent "practicing history." Similar books: On History by Eric Hobsbawm The Historian as Detective by Robin W. Winks Cleopatra's Nose by Daniel J. Boorstin The Landscape of History by John Lewis Gaddis Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method by Carlo Ginzburg Who Owns History? by Eric Foner The Varieties of History by Fritz Stern Civilization by Roger Osborne Catastrophe by David Keys A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto The Purpose of the Past by Gordon S. Wood In Defense of History by Richard J. Evans The Historian's Craft by Marc Bloch Looking for History by Alma Guillermoprieto The March of Folly by Barbara W. Tuchman The Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara W. Tuchman Stillwell and the American Experience in China by Barbara W. Tuchman The American Spirit by David McCullough