Margaret MacMillan

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Curiosity From: History's People View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, MacMillan examines curiosity as a driving force behind human progress, focusing on women who defied social constraints, including Ada Lovelace, Elizabeth Simcoe, Fanny Parkes, …	Margaret MacMillan	54	2015	$5.40 Add
From Daring From: History's People View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, MacMillan examines humanity’s need to be daring or defiant, discussing Winston Churchill’s actions at Dunkirk in 1940, George Mallory’s fatal 1924 Everest …	Margaret MacMillan	68	2015	$6.80 Add
History’s People Personalities and the Past House of Anansi Press	In History’s People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of figures of the past, women and men, some famous and some …	Margaret MacMillan	402	2015	View
From Hubris From: History's People View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, MacMillan examines how hubris shaped the actions of four leaders across the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler.	Margaret MacMillan	70	2015	$7.00 Add
From Note on Readings, References, and Index From: History's People View House of Anansi Press	This "chapter" includes a note on readings, references, and an index.	Margaret MacMillan	45	2015	$4.50 Add
From Observers From: History's People View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, MacMillan examines humanity’s desire to observe, discussing diaries and memoirs. She focuses on two remarkable witnesses: Count Harry Kessler, whose fifty-year diary …	Margaret MacMillan	78	2015	$7.80 Add
From Persuasion and the Art of Leadership From: History's People View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, MacMillan traces Franklin D. Roosevelt’s shift from neutrality to active support of Allied nations between 1936 and 1941, and compares him to William Lyon Mackenzie King.	Margaret MacMillan	77	2015	$7.70 Add