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

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Length
544 pages
Author
Barbara W. Tuchman
Eras
Age of Global Civilization (1844-present)
Types
History
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Synopsis
"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 life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev’s Russian ballet and Stravinsky’s music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close." [Amazon]
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Released
1966
Location
Europe & America
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