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History´s People: Personalities and the Past
Professor Margaret Macmillan
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Description for History´s People: Personalities and the Past
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; GBCB; HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 238.
What difference do individuals make to history? Are we all swept up in the great forces like industrialisation or globalisation, or is the world we inhabit shaped just as much by real people - leaders for example - and the decisions that they make? For better or for worse, the personalities of the powerful can affect millions of people and the future of countries: it matters who is in the driving seat, and who is making plans. Equally important: how is history itself made by those who keep the records? In History's People Margaret Macmillan explores ... Read more
What difference do individuals make to history? Are we all swept up in the great forces like industrialisation or globalisation, or is the world we inhabit shaped just as much by real people - leaders for example - and the decisions that they make? For better or for worse, the personalities of the powerful can affect millions of people and the future of countries: it matters who is in the driving seat, and who is making plans. Equally important: how is history itself made by those who keep the records? In History's People Margaret Macmillan explores ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781255131
SKU
V9781781255131
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About Professor Margaret Macmillan
Margaret MacMillan is the renowned author of the international bestsellers The War That Ended Peace, Nixon in China and Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, the Hessell-Tiltman Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize and the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award in Canada. The past provost of Trinity College ... Read more
Reviews for History´s People: Personalities and the Past
Irreverent and highly enjoyable
Observer
Combines erudition and enthusiasm
Independent
As entertaining and illuminating a work of popular history as one could possibly wish for
Prospect
She yet again shows that she is not only a consummate storyteller; she is also a brilliant historian
New Statesman
A wise and necessary book
... Read more
Observer
Combines erudition and enthusiasm
Independent
As entertaining and illuminating a work of popular history as one could possibly wish for
Prospect
She yet again shows that she is not only a consummate storyteller; she is also a brilliant historian
New Statesman
A wise and necessary book
... Read more