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2004., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada, with Otherwise Editions Call No: 971.384 M167c Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2016., House of Anansi Press Call No: 920.02 M167h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Massey lectures series.Summary Note: In History’s People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of figures of the past, women and men, some famous and some little-known, who stand out for her. Some have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. Others are memorable for being risk-takers, adventurers, or observers. She looks at the concept of leadership through Bismarck and the unification of Germany; William Lyon MacKenzie King and the preservation of the Canadian Federation; Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the bringing of a unified United States into the Second World War. She also notes how leaders can make huge and often destructive mistakes, as in the cases of Hitler, Stalin, and Thatcher. Richard Nixon and Samuel de Champlain are examples of daring risk-takers who stubbornly went their own ways, often in defiance of their own societies. Then there are the dreamers, explorers, and adventurers, individuals like Fanny Parkes and Elizabeth Simcoe who manage to defy or ignore the constraints of their own societies. Finally, there are the observers, such as Babur, the first Mughal emperor of India, and Victor Klemperer, a Holocaust survivor, who kept the notes and diaries that bring the past to life. History’s People is about the important and complex relationship between biography and history, individuals and their times.
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c2002., Random House Call No: 940.3141 M167p Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library
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2009., Penguin Canada Call No: Bio L434ma Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Extraordinary Canadians
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2013., Books on Tape Call No: CD 940.3 M167w Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had been the most peaceful era Europe had known since the fall of the Roman Empire. In the first years of the twentieth century, Europe believed it was marching to a golden, happy, and prosperous future. But instead, complex personalities and rivalries, colonialism and ethnic nationalism, and shifting alliances helped to bring about the failure of the long peace and the outbreak of a war that transformed Europe and the world.
![The war that ended peace [CD] : the road to 1914](/Library/images/~imageCT76376.JPG "The war that ended peace [CD] : the road to 1914")
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2013., Adult, Penguin Books Canada Call No: 940.2 M167w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "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 into a catastrophic conflict that killed millions, bled its economies dry, shook empires and societies to pieces, and fatally undermined Europe's dominance of the world. It was a war that could have been avoided up to the last moment--so why did it happen? Beginning in the early nineteenth century and ending with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, award-winning historian Margaret Macmillan uncovers the huge political and technological changes, national decisions, and just as important, the small moments of human muddle and weakness that led Europe from peace to disaster. This masterful exploration of how Europe chose its path towards war will change and enrich how we see this defining moment in history"--Provided by publisher.
