巴巴拉·W·塔奇曼(Barbara W. Tuchman,1912—1989),美國著名曆史學傢、作傢,1963年和1972年憑《八月炮火》與《史迪威與美國在中國的經驗,1911—1945》兩度獲得普利策奬。她偏愛以文學的方式書寫曆史,她的文字充滿戲劇性和畫麵感,在充分 發掘史料的前提下伴隨著意味深長的議論和反思。其作品深受大眾讀者和費正清等曆史學傢的推崇。
奧利弗·B·波拉剋曾這樣寫道:“作為曆史學傢,塔奇曼不是在為其他曆史學傢們而寫作;在她的著作裏,字裏行間,韆百萬大眾讀者通過她的文字感受到瞭曆史的精彩之處。”
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 Jaurès 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 that she 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
20世纪真正的起始之年无疑是1914年。那年夏天,萨拉热窝的一声枪响引爆了一场世界大战,随后的四年间,7000万人在战场上厮杀,而驱使他们这么做的原因却谁也说不清楚。那是一场荒诞、不必要和非理性的战争,与之前长久以来对人类力量的自信、对理性和不断进步的信念背道而驰,...
評分如果说参考文献能佐证一部著作内容的充实与否,那在《骄傲之塔》背后长达50页的文献说明则象征着美国著名历史学家、作家巴巴拉•W•塔奇曼在创作上的勤奋与严谨。当阅读这部《骄傲之塔》的时候,内心会由衷的赞叹这部著作。正如作者简介中引用奥利弗•B•波拉克...
評分文/吴情 众所周知,无论是在政治经济方面,抑或在思想文化领域,“一战”对西方世界的影响都很深远。然而,就“一战”的爆发,有人认为出乎意料,将其定义为一场原可以避免的灾难;也有人认为是历史发展的必然结果:资本主义列强步入帝国主义阶段,政治经济发展不平衡...
評分骄傲之塔是今年读过的最佳作品之一吧,总的说来作者的选取的视角颇佳,通过国别体事件导向的叙述方式勾勒出了19世纪末整个西方世界的大图景,可惜少了俄国和奥匈,完整性差了一些。此外要是将无政府主义移到第一章和结尾的社会主义相呼应就更好了,从无政府主义到社会主义,本...
評分作者的知识体系很丰富,可能跟她的出身有关,但这本书确实不错,读起来很舒服,尤其是关于德雷福斯案件跟施特劳斯那两章,如何对历史进行基本史实的讲述与相对客观的价值观传递,她给出了一个参考方式。 索尔兹伯里勋爵士,里布尔斯代尔勋爵,克鲁泡特金,反叛杂志,托马斯b里...
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评分“With emotion, to the man I used to be.”
评分“With emotion, to the man I used to be.”
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