Author: George Frost Kennan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691218277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
In an attempt to discover some of the underlying origins of World War I, the eminent diplomat and writer George Kennan focuses on a small sector of offstage events to show how they affected the drama at large long before the war even began. In the introduction to his book George Kennan tells us, "I came to see World War I . . . as the great seminal catastrophe of this century--the event which . . . lay at the heart of the failure and decline of this Western civilization." But, he asks, who could help being struck by the contrast between this apocalyptic result and the "delirious euphoria" of the crowds on the streets of Europe at the outbreak of war in 1914! "Were we not," he suggests, "in the face of some monstrous miscalculation--some pervasive failure to read correctly the outward indicators of one's own situation?" It is from this perspective that Mr. Kennan launches a "micro-history" of the Franco-Russian relationship as far back as the 1870s in an effort to determine the motives that led people "to wander so blindly" into the horrors of the First World War.
The Decline of Bismarck's European Order
Author: George Frost Kennan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691218277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
In an attempt to discover some of the underlying origins of World War I, the eminent diplomat and writer George Kennan focuses on a small sector of offstage events to show how they affected the drama at large long before the war even began. In the introduction to his book George Kennan tells us, "I came to see World War I . . . as the great seminal catastrophe of this century--the event which . . . lay at the heart of the failure and decline of this Western civilization." But, he asks, who could help being struck by the contrast between this apocalyptic result and the "delirious euphoria" of the crowds on the streets of Europe at the outbreak of war in 1914! "Were we not," he suggests, "in the face of some monstrous miscalculation--some pervasive failure to read correctly the outward indicators of one's own situation?" It is from this perspective that Mr. Kennan launches a "micro-history" of the Franco-Russian relationship as far back as the 1870s in an effort to determine the motives that led people "to wander so blindly" into the horrors of the First World War.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691218277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
In an attempt to discover some of the underlying origins of World War I, the eminent diplomat and writer George Kennan focuses on a small sector of offstage events to show how they affected the drama at large long before the war even began. In the introduction to his book George Kennan tells us, "I came to see World War I . . . as the great seminal catastrophe of this century--the event which . . . lay at the heart of the failure and decline of this Western civilization." But, he asks, who could help being struck by the contrast between this apocalyptic result and the "delirious euphoria" of the crowds on the streets of Europe at the outbreak of war in 1914! "Were we not," he suggests, "in the face of some monstrous miscalculation--some pervasive failure to read correctly the outward indicators of one's own situation?" It is from this perspective that Mr. Kennan launches a "micro-history" of the Franco-Russian relationship as far back as the 1870s in an effort to determine the motives that led people "to wander so blindly" into the horrors of the First World War.
Van Gogh's Letters
Author: H. Anna Suh
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
ISBN: 1579128599
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS. A beautifully illustrated book which pairs Van Gogh's passionate letters to family and friends with his paintings and newly popular drawings. They exhibit the artist's genius and depth of observation and feeling in its most naked form. Here, they have been excerpted and re-translated and set side-by-side with his drawings and paintings from the same period, 1875-1890.
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
ISBN: 1579128599
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS. A beautifully illustrated book which pairs Van Gogh's passionate letters to family and friends with his paintings and newly popular drawings. They exhibit the artist's genius and depth of observation and feeling in its most naked form. Here, they have been excerpted and re-translated and set side-by-side with his drawings and paintings from the same period, 1875-1890.
1875-1890
Author: Charles Wells Moulton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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1875-1890
Author: Charles Wells Moulton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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1875-1890
Author: Charles Wells Moulton
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Yearbook
Author: Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Publisher:
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Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Founders' Week Memorial Volume
Author: Frederick Porteous Henry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History of Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History of Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Bulletin
Author: United States. Division of Foreign Markets
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
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Bulletin No. 1-37
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Division of Foreign Markets
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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