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Hace 4 días · The Berlin Lecture will be delivered in 2024 by Professor Margaret MacMillan and livestreamed on YouTube. Abstract. We like to think of war as an aberration, as the breakdown of the normal state of peace. This is comforting but wrong, as we are realizing yet again today.
Hace 4 días · The 2024 Berlin Lecture at Wolfson College, Oxford, takes place on Thursday 9 May, 6.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m., in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium. Professor Margaret MacMillan will lecture on 'Thinking about War in the Modern Age'.
Hace 4 días · Steiner’s lucid treatment of the what became of the ‘broken shards’ of the Habsburg Empire will be invaluable to anyone left confused by Margaret MacMillan’s account of the impact of The Peacemakers on Eastern and Central Europe.
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 ...
Hace 4 días · Through seven richly-detailed chapters on the fatal month, Otte bolsters the historiographic slant of the revisionists by minimizing the role of the Kaiser and the German elite over the spiraling course of events and relocating the trigger of war eastward. Otte and The July Crisis.
Hace 5 días · The closing days of war are especially meaningful historical moments, and there are some other excellent books set in these transition periods, notably Margaret MacMillan’s Paris 1919 and David Stafford’s Endgame, 1945.—James Glaser, dean of undergraduate education, School of Arts and Sciences
Hace 20 horas · Twenty years ago, on this day, May 24th, 2004, a retread disaster film (with climate change substituted for nuclear war) hit the screens, launched in New York. The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was roughly 377.7ppm. As of 2024 it is 425ppm, but check here for daily measures. The context was that Hollywood […]
