Margaret MacMillan

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Margaret MacMillan

Margaret Olwen MacMillan , CH , CC (born December 23, 1943 in Toronto ) is a Canadian historian . She works at the University of Oxford , where she also chairs St Antony's College .

Career

British Prime Minister David Lloyd George's great-granddaughter received her Ph.D. at St Antony's College, Oxford. She worked at Ryerson University in her hometown of Toronto from 1975 to 2002 . For Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 , she was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize , the Hessell-Tiltman Prize and the first woman to receive the Samuel Johnson Prize . In 2015 she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada . In 2018 she gave the BBC's Reith Lectures .

Fonts

  • 1988: Women of the Raj.
  • 1990: Canada and NATO: Uneasy Past, Uncertain Future.
  • 1996: The Uneasy Century: International Relations 1900–1990. Kendall / Hunt, 1996
  • 2003: Parties Long Estranged: Canada and Australia in the Twentieth Century. (Co-authored with Francine McKenzie)
  • 2003: Peacemakers. The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War.
    • Title changed: Paris 1919. Six Months that Changed the World.
    • Translated by Klaus-Dieter Schmidt: The peace makers. How the Versailles Treaty changed the world. Ullstein, 2015
  • 2004: Canada's House: Rideau Hall and the Invention of a Canadian Home. (Co-authored with Marjorie Harris and Anne L. Desjardins)
  • 2006: Nixon in China: The Week That Changed the World.
  • 2008: The Uses and Abuses of History. (also: Dangerous Games: the Uses and Abuses of History)
  • 2013: The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914. Publisher Profile
    • 2014 Transl. Laurent Bury: Vers la Grande Guerre. Comment l'Europe a renoncé à la paix. Autrement, Paris

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Class of 2015 / List of New Fellows ( Memento from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on September 12, 2016
  2. BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Margaret MacMillan, War and Humanity. Retrieved November 6, 2018 (UK English).
  3. Born 1950, mathematician, Germanist
  4. ^ NY Times
  5. Guardian on her 2013 book The War That Ended Peace available in online bookshops.