War: How Conflict Shaped Us - Margaret MacMillan
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Is peace an aberration? The New York Times bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an essential component of humanity.
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“Margaret MacMillan has produced another seminal work. . . . She is right that we must, more than ever, think about war. And she has shown us how in this brilliant, elegantly written book.”—H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty and Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
The instinct to fight may be innate in human nature, but war—organized violence—comes with organized society. War has shaped humanity’s history, its social and political institutions, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, and some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war. War is an uncomfortable and challenging subject not least because it brings out both the vilest and the noblest aspects of humanity.
Margaret MacMillan looks at the ways in which war has influenced human society and how, in turn, changes in political organization, technology, or ideologies have affected how and why we fight. War: How Conflict Shaped Us explores such much-debated and controversial questions as: When did war first start? Does human nature doom us to fight one another? Why has war been described as the most organized of all human activities? Why are warriors almost always men? Is war ever within our control?
Drawing on lessons from wars throughout the past, from classical history to the present day, MacMillan reveals the many faces of war—the way it has determined our past, our future, our views of the world, and our very conception of ourselves.
©2020 Margaret MacMillan (P)2020 Random House Audio
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| 01 - War - How Conflict Shaped Us - Introduction.mp3 13.03 MBs | |
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| 02 - War - How Conflict Shaped Us - Chapter 1 - Humanity, Society and War.mp3 28.66 MBs | |
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 5/5
May 12th, 2023
Peace out, mr p! Author has several great, incisive bks: on Versailles (lecture series, too); Nixon in China; Dangerous Games (on history itself).
However, on the issue of warriors almost always being gentlemen, I must draw attention to Xena: the warrior princess, and Gabrielle, the Amazon ladies generally. And when we delve into the ancient historiography, we find that Xena, in her earlier episodic appearances, was actually quite a villainous warrior. Defence lazily rests.
May 13th, 2023
caesar963,
Barbara W. Tuchman vs. Margaret MacMillan
Where’s your money?
May 13th, 2023
Seredipity-doo-dah - just before you asked your (characteristically discerning) question, I was a-ponderin’ “Do we have a second Babs with Mags?”
I’d go with Tuchman, as a perspicacious, historical all-rounder, but it’s early daze.
May 13th, 2023
…unless you’re suggesting some kind of ill-timed wrestling contest?
May 16th, 2023
Sorry, while it’s possible that Barbara Tuchman might be the better stylist, there’s no question in my mind that Margaret MacMillan is the superior historian. I found 1919 excellent. I just reread “Guns” recently, and although I loved the writing, I was struck by how shallow was her understanding of the strategic issues facing the major powers in the summer of 1914. To be fair, tho, Dr. MacMillan has the benefits of almost a half century of further scholarly investigation by herself and other historians.
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