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Margaret MacMillan
Margaret MacMillan
Canadian Historian
Born: Dec 23, 1943
History People War Women World You
Related authors: Alexis de Tocqueville Hannah Arendt Herodotus Tacitus Tara Westover Thucydides Will Durant Yuval Noah Harari
We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge. Margaret MacMillan
Knowledge Mistake Everywhere Able Lots Very Quickly Get Getting Being Information Actually
A lot of my father's family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that was defending the mother country. Margaret MacMillan
War Family World Mother Father First Country Saw Volunteered Because First World First World War Lot Canada World War Defending
I'm interested in the balance between big currents in history - the economies, the ideologies, social structures, and so on - and the decisions that people have to make. At the heart of all these great decisions to go to war, there are human beings who have to say, 'Yes, let's do it,' or 'No, we won't do it.' Margaret MacMillan
War Great History Balance Heart People Big Say Structures Between Economies Make Ideologies Go Yes Human Currents Human Beings Decisions Interested Social Who Beings
Maintaining peace can be as strenuous as winning a war. Margaret MacMillan
War Peace Winning Maintaining Strenuous
If you read about millions of people doing this and millions of people doing that, history seems remote and inaccessible. Margaret MacMillan
History You People About Seems Remote Read Doing Inaccessible Millions Millions Of People
When I first read Barbara Tuchman's 'The Guns of August' in the autumn of 1963, it was as though history went from black and white to Technicolor. Margaret MacMillan
History Black Black And White First Autumn White Though Guns Read August Barbara
I've always loved reading diaries and memoirs and just getting a sense of different personalities and what made them tick as individuals. Margaret MacMillan
Made Reading Sense Memoirs Individuals Tick Always Diaries Getting Just Different Loved Personalities Them Different Personalities
I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one. Margaret MacMillan
War World First Wish Understanding See Could Global First World First World War Issue Nationalistic European Even World War
In the 19th century, we didn't much like the loud annexationist voices south of the border or American support for Sinn Fein adventurers who thought, by seizing the Canadian colonies, they could force Britain out of Ireland. Margaret MacMillan
Thought Out Border Colonies Seizing Voices Could Support Adventurers Like Fein Force South Sinn Sinn Fein Ireland Loud Canadian American Century Much Who Britain
Managing the relationship with a giant neighbour has been central to our foreign policy for more than a century. Trade and investment, as well as people, have flowed back and forth across the border, and the U.S. is, by far, our biggest trading partner. Margaret MacMillan
Relationship People Partner Back Our Giant Neighbour Has-Been Border More Investment Well Policy Trade Foreign Trading Trading Partner Foreign Policy Been Than Managing Biggest Central Century Far Forth Across
No one is always right. Margaret MacMillan
No-One Always Right
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