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The War That Ended Peace; The Road to 1914
by MacMillan, Margaret
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0670064041
- ISBN 13
- 9780670064045
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About This Item
Toronto: Allen Lane, 2013. Hardcover. pp. xxxv, 739. 8vo. Gilt lettering to spine, pictoral endpapers. Light shelfwear, some spots to page edges; very good in very good, rubbed dustjacket.
Synopsis
Margaret MacMillan received her PhD from Oxford University and is now a professor of international history at Oxford, where she is also the warden of St. Antony’s College. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; a senior fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto; and an honorary fellow of Trinity College, University of Toronto, and of St Hilda’s College, Oxford University. She sits on the boards of the Mosaic Institute and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, and on the editorial boards of The International History Review and First World War Studies . She also sits on the advisory board of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation and is a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust. Her previous books include Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History, Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World, Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the British Empire in India , and Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice.
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- Title
- The War That Ended Peace; The Road to 1914
- Author
- MacMillan, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670064041
- ISBN 13
- 9780670064045
- Publisher
- Allen Lane
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2013
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