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History's People: Personalities and the Past by Margaret MacMillan
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
In this year's highly anticipated Massey Lectures, internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of the memorable figures of the past, women and men, who have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. The actions of Hitler, Sta ...Show more
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed by Macmillan Margaret Olwen
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 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, for the first time in history, was an Americ ...Show more
Paris 1919 - Six Months That Changed The World by Margaret Macmillan
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: good
Peacemakers: Six Months that Changed The World by Margaret Macmillan (Professor of History, University of Toronto, Canada)
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
The story of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, when for six extraordinary months the city was at the centre of world government as the peacemakers wound up bankrupt empires and created new countries. This book brings to life the personalities, ideals and prejudices of the settlement brokers.
The Uses and Abuses of History by Margaret MacMillan
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
History is useful when it is used properly: to understand why we and those we must deal with think and react in certain ways. It can offer examples to inform our decisions and guesses about the consequences of our actions. But we should be wary of looking to history for dogmatic lessons.We should distru ...Show more
The War That Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War by Margaret MacMillan
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the definitive history of the political, cultural, military and personal forces which shaped Europe's path to the Great War. 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 ...Show more
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY"The New York Times Book Review - The Economist - The Christian Science Monitor - Bloomberg Businessweek - The Globe and Mail" From the bestselling and award-winning author of "Paris 1919" comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Eu ...Show more
The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War by Margaret MacMillan
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: WARTHE
WINNER of the International Affairs Book of the Year at the Political Book Awards 2014Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013The 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 int ...Show more
War - How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
$45.00 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Reading Level: very good
How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in - for good and evil. The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a militar ...Show more
War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in - for good and evil. The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a militar ...Show more
Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
The apparent glamour of the Indian Raj continues to fascinate long after the British quit the subcontinent. But along with the beauty of the Indian landscape and the privilege of servants and holidays in hill stations, British women in that vanished world faced challenges and fears that came from being ...Show more
Women of the Raj by Macmillan Margaret
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
In the nineteenth century, at the height of colonialism, the British ruled India under a government known as the Raj. British men and women left their homes and traveled to this mysterious, beautiful country where they attempted to replicate their own society. In this fascinating portrait, Margaret MacM ...Show more
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