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(0)Margaret MacMillan
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"War, the instinct to fight, is inherent in human nature; peace is the aberration in history. War has shaped humanity, its institutions, its states, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war. War is an uncomfortable and challenging subject not least because it brings out the most vile and the noblest aspects of humanity. Margaret...
Author
Language
English
Description
Between January and July 1919, after "the war to end all wars," men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise to so many people the fulfillment of their dreams. Stern, intransigent, impatient when it came to security concerns and idealistic in his dream of a League of Nations that would resolve all future conflict peacefully,...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxii, 404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
With the publication of her landmark bestseller Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan was praised as "a superb writer who can bring history to life" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Now she brings her extraordinary gifts to one of the most important subjects today-the relationship between the United States and China-and one of the most significant moments in modern history. In February 1972, Richard Nixon, the first American president ever to visit China, and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 188 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the ways in which history has been used to influence people and government, focusing on how reportage of past events has been manipulated to justify religious movements and political campaigns.
This book explores the many ways in which history -- its values and dangers -- affects us all, including how it is used and abused. The author reveals how a deeper engagement with history in our private lives and, more important, in the sphere of...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Physical Desc
xxxv, 739 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked into a catastrophic conflict which killed millions of its men, bled its economies dry, shook empires and societies to pieces, and fatally undermined Europe's dominance of the world. It was a war which could have been avoided up to the last moment - so why did it happen? Beginning...