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- ISBN
- 9781788162562
- Titel
- War - how conflict shaped us
- Författare
- MacMillan, Margaret
- Utgivningsår
- 2020
- Omfång
- 328 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Hardcover
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a military conflict ongoing every year since 1945. The same can be said for every century of recorded history. Is war, therefore, an essential part of being human? 0In War, Professor Margaret MacMillan explores the deep links between society and war and the questions they raise. We learn when war began - whether among early homo sapiens or later, as we began to organise ourselves into tribes and settle in communities. We see the ways in which war reflects changing societies and how war has brought change - for better and worse.0Economies, science, technology, medicine, culture: all are instrumental in war and have been shaped by it - without conflict it we might not have had penicillin, female emancipation, radar or rockets. Throughout history, writers, artists, film-makers, playwrights, and composers have been inspired by war - whether to condemn, exalt or simply puzzle about it. If we are never to be rid of war, how should we think about it and what does that mean for peace?
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The war that ended peace : how Europe abandon...
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Inrikes enhetsfrakt Sverige: 62 SEK- ISBN
- 9781846682728
- Titel
- The war that ended peace : how Europe abandoned peace for the First World War
- Författare
- MacMillan, Margaret
- Förlag
- London : Profile Books
- Utgivningsår
- 2013
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- 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 which killed millions of its men, bled its economies dry, shook empires and societies to pieces, and fatally undermined Europe's dominance of the world. It was a war which 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 Arch Duke 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.
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