Маргарет Макмиллан

Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused and lead to misunderstanding. History is used to justify religious movements and political cam...

Всемирно известный историк, профессор Оксфордского университета Маргарет Макмиллан исследует причины развязывания Первой мировой войны, последовавшей после длительного периода мира в Европе, который, казалось, и впредь сулил ей процветание и прогресс. Автор рассматривает основные политические и технологические преобразования Европы за годы, предшествующие войне, то есть с конца XIX в. до августа 1...

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 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 wildly...