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Margaret Olwen MacMillan OC D.Phil. (born 1943) is a historian and professor at Oxford University where she is Warden of St. Antony's College. She is former provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto. A well-respected expert on history and current affairs, MacMillan is a frequent commentator in the media.
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Margaret Olwen MacMillan OC D.Phil. (born 1943) is a historian and professor at Oxford University where she is Warden of St. Antony's College. She is former provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto. A well-respected expert on history and current affairs, MacMillan is a frequent commentator in the media.
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan, Casey Hampton (Designer), Richard Holbrooke (Foreword) 4.12 avg rating — 14,334 ratings — published 2001 —64 editions | Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars |
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The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 4.24 avg rating — 6,981 ratings — published 2013 —49 editions | Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars |
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War: How Conflict Shaped Us 3.57 avg rating — 3,571 ratings — published 2020 —29 editions | Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars |
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The Uses and Abuses of History 3.64 avg rating — 2,026 ratings — published 2008 —35 editions | Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars |
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Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World 3.89 avg rating — 1,052 ratings — published 2005 —24 editions | Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars |
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History's People: Personalities and the Past 3.68 avg rating — 871 ratings — published 2015 —20 editions | Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars |
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Women of the Raj 3.82 avg rating — 653 ratings — published 1988 —11 editions | Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars |
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The Rhyme of History: Lessons of the Great War 3.82 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2013 —3 editions | Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars |
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Stephen Leacock by Margaret MacMillan, John Ralston Saul (Introduction) 3.44 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2009 —5 editions | Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars |
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Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret MacMillan (2009-01-01) 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings | Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars |
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“We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.”
― Margaret MacMillan
tags:dangerous-games,history
“They should have remembered that famous saying of Bismarck: “Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.”
― Margaret MacMillan, The War That Ended Peace: The Road To 1914
“What may seem like a reasonable way of protecting oneself can look very different from the other side of the border.”
― Margaret MacMillan, The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War
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