A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W. Tuchman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394400267
- ISBN 13
- 9780394400266
- Seller
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Independence, Missouri, United States
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Synopsis
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989) achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August —a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include Bible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), Notes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, and The First Salute .
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- Bookseller
- Blue & Grey Book Shoppe (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1657
- Title
- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
- Author
- Barbara W. Tuchman
- Format/Binding
- Cloth over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Printing, September 1978
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394400267
- ISBN 13
- 9780394400266
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Pages
- 377
- Keywords
- 14th century, Europe, Black Death, crusades, castles, cathedrals, chivalry, Books of Hours, spiritual agony, plague, peasant, proletarian, revolts, Chaucer, romance, tournaments, domestic life, childhood, marriage, taxes, serf, noble, clergy
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - World;
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