Michael Eliot Howard (1922–2019)
Autor von Kurze Geschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs
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Michael Eliot Howard was born in London on Nov. 29, 1922. His father, Geoffrey Eliot Howard, ran a family company manufacturing pharmaceutical and industrial chemicals. His mother was Edith Julia Emma Edinger, a socialite and, later, art collector. He became aware of the consequences of his mehr anzeigen mother¿s Jewish ancestry only when her relatives, a sad procession of refugees, began arriving in England in the 1930s, fleeing Nazi persecution. Mr. Howard was educated at Wellington College and at Oxford University, where he studied history. In 1942, he joined the Army as a second lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards and was sent to join the campaign in Italy. In the postwar years, Mr. Howard returned to Oxford to complete his studies and, in the early 1950s, helped found the Department of War Studies at King¿s College. In 1960, he traveled widely in the United States on a grant from the Ford Foundation. He later taught for six months as a visiting professor at Stanford. In 1968, he moved to Oxford as a fellow of All Souls College, an elite center of postgraduate studies, and later held the Regius chair which he called the flagship of the historical profession at Oriel College, Oxford. After two decades lecturing and writing in Oxford, he moved to Yale in 1989 to take up the Robert A. Lovett Chair of Military and Naval History until his retirement from the post in 1993. Michael Eliot Howard passed away on November 1, 2019 at the age of 97. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
Werke von Michael Eliot Howard
Der Krieg in der europäischen Geschichte: Vom Mittelalter bis zu den neuen Kriegen der Gegenwart (1976) 396 Exemplare
Continental Commitment: The Dilemma of British Defence Policy in the Era of the Two World Wars (1972) 20 Exemplare
A Historical Sensibility: Sir Michael Howard and The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1958–2019… (2020) 4 Exemplare
The use and abuse of military history.: An article from: The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin 2 Exemplare
'A very shrewd old bird' in TLS 5333, 17 June 2005 [review of Williams' 'Pétain (1856-1951)'] 1 Exemplar
Structure and process in history 1 Exemplar
Wellingtonian studies; essays of the first Duke of Wellington by five old Wellingtonian historians 1 Exemplar
Booknotes: World War One 1 Exemplar
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Geschichte des deutsche-französischen Krieges von 1870 - 71 nebst einem Aufsatz Über den angeblichen… (1891) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 36 Exemplare
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1990 (1989) — Author "Europe 1914" — 12 Exemplare
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society - Sixth Series, Volume 03 (1993) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 7 Exemplare
Alle cultuur is streven: De verzamelde Huizinga-lezingen 1972-1986 (1987) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
History : the journal of the Historical Association, February, June and October 1956 (1956) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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The Lessons of History von Michael Howard
An excellent collection oi essays/lectures from a master historian. Worth the time of anyone interested in European or military history.
Om krigets natur och historiens drivkrafter. Författaren konstaterar att krig har funnits lika länge som mänskligheten, medan fred är en relativt ny tanke. Läsaren får följa med genom Europas historia från forntid fram till 11 september 2001 med stopp vid avgörande vändpunkter och nya idéer som styrt utvecklingen.
I'm not normally a fan of reading introductions before reading the primary, since so often introductions are arguing hard for the author's (sometimes quirky) interpretation, but this one is so good. Clausewitz is cited far more than read, and the more common editions are a 1907 or so translation. So, the book seems more archaic in language than it was. Howard was part of the best translation/edition, and this little book does a great job of summarizing Clausewitz's argument, and even explaining how it was misrepresented.
If you're interested in Clausewitz, start here.… (mehr)
If you're interested in Clausewitz, start here.… (mehr)
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