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Margaret MacMillan

Born

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Website

http://www.margaretmacmillan.com/

Genre

Nonfiction, History

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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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Average rating: 4.03 · 31,658 ratings · 3,144 reviews · 67 distinct works • Similar authors

	Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World 4.13 avg rating — 15,045 ratings — published 2001 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 4.25 avg rating — 7,338 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War: How Conflict Shaped Us 3.57 avg rating — 3,883 ratings — published 2020 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Uses and Abuses of History 3.64 avg rating — 2,174 ratings — published 2008 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World 3.90 avg rating — 1,084 ratings — published 2005 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History's People: Personalities and the Past 3.68 avg rating — 902 ratings — published 2015 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women of the Raj 3.83 avg rating — 666 ratings — published 1988 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rhyme of History: Lessons of the Great War 3.84 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stephen Leacock by Margaret MacMillan, John Ralston Saul (Introduction) 3.51 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Canada's House: Rideau Hall and the Invention of a Canadian Home by Margaret MacMillan, Marjorie Harris, Anne L. Desjardins 2.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 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

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“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

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“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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Vote for our WWI non-fiction title for the March retreat. Last day to vote will be October 22.

The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm

Juliet Nicolson

6 votes, 33.3%

The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman

4 votes, 22.2%

Nicholas and Alexandra

Robert K. Massie

3 votes, 16.7%

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

Margaret MacMillan

2 votes, 11.1%

Vimy

Pierre Berton

1 vote, 5.6%

Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort

Edith Wharton

1 vote, 5.6%

The War to End All Wars: World War I

Russell Freedman

1 vote, 5.6%

18 total votes

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