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Barbara Wertheim Tuchman est une historienne américaine. Elle doit sa notoriété à The Guns of August, l'histoire du prologue de la Première Guerre mondiale, qui obtint le prix Pulitzer de l'essai en 1963. Elle a aussi reçu le prix Pulitzer de l'essai pour Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945, une biographie du général Joseph Stilwell. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. janvier 1912 – 6. février 1989  •  Autres noms باربارا تاکمن
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Barbara W. Tuchman: 45 citations0 J'aime

Barbara W. Tuchman: Citations en anglais

“When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 202

“Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 389

“The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 594

“Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. xix

“When reproached for spending too much time with books and clerks, Charles answered, “As long as knowledge is honored in this country, so long will it prosper.””

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Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 239

“Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 534

“The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 173

“Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 213

“To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 399

“What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 455

“Chroniclers habitually matched numbers to the awesomeness of the event.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 554

“Survivors of the plague, finding themselves neither destroyed nor improved, could discover no Divine purpose in the pain they had suffered. God’s purposes were usually mysterious, but this scourge had been too terrible to be accepted without questioning. If a disaster of such magnitude, the most lethal ever known, was a mere wanton act of God or perhaps not God’s work at all, then the absolutes of a fixed order were loosed from their moorings. Minds that opened to admit these questions could never again be shut. Once people envisioned the possibility of change in a fixed order, the end of an age of submission came in sight; the turn to individual conscience lay ahead. To that extent the Black Death may have been the unrecognized beginning of modern man.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 123

“For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 327

“Perhaps by this time the 14th century was not quite sane. If enlightened self-interest is the criterion of sanity, in the verdict of Michelet, “no epoch was more naturally mad.””

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Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 332

“Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place. Besides, persistence of the normal is usually greater than the effect of the disturbance, as we know from our own times. After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening—on a lucky day—without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena. This has led me to formulate Tuchman's Law, as follows: "The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold"”

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Barbara W. Tuchman livre A Distant Mirror

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Source: A Distant Mirror (1978)