Margaret MacMillan

Canadian historian · Canada · Writers · Born 1943 · age 82

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Margaret Olwen MacMillan is a Canadian historian and emeritus professor at the University of Oxford. She is former provost of Trinity College, Toronto, and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously at Ryerson University. MacMillan is an expert on the history of international relations.

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2020“Religion, and it can merge into nationalism as orthodoxy does with the Serbs and the Russians, offers both a cause worth dying for and the promise of eternal life.”In their wordsWar: How Conflict Shaped Us (2020)Read the whole statement

“Civil wars are hard to forget, even when peace comes, because they so often leave peoples living side by side who have very recently been enemies.”In their wordsCh. 2Read the whole statement

“The Persians were to learn in the most costly manner just what that Greek way of war could do to an enemy. ...”In their wordsCh. 3Read the whole statement

“War has its own laws and one of the oldest and most persistent is that those who have surrendered and civilians, where possible, should be spared.”In their wordsCh. 5Read the whole statement

Honorary Fellow of the Learned Society of WalesAward2015Medlicott MedalAward2008“Over the years, historians have tried to discern grand patterns, perhaps one grand pattern, that explain everything.”In their wordsp. 15Read the whole statement

“As a judge, history also undermines the claims of leaders to omniscience. Dictators, perhaps because they know their own lies so well, have usually realized the power of history.”In their wordsp. 22Read the whole statement

2007Jean-Michel Gaillard PrizeAward2003Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAwardGovernor General's Award for English-language non-fictionAward2002Baillie Gifford PrizeAwardHessell-Tiltman PrizeAward1943Born23 December 1943

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Religion, and it can merge into nationalism as orthodoxy does with the Serbs and the Russians, offers both a cause worth dying for and the promise of eternal life.
2020, War: How Conflict Shaped Us (2020), Own words
Civil wars are hard to forget, even when peace comes, because they so often leave peoples living side by side who have very recently been enemies.
2020, Ch. 2, Own words
Today of course we have religious wars again and the targets are again without limit until the final goal is achieved.
2020, Ch. 2, Own words

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Honorary Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales2020

Medlicott Medal2015

Jean-Michel Gaillard Prize2007

Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction2003

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature2003

Baillie Gifford Prize2002

Hessell-Tiltman Prize2002

Companion of the Order of Canada

Order of Merit

Order of the Companions of Honour

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