Margaret MacMillan: War

Margaret MacMillan and Candace Savage

Margaret MacMillan: War

Margaret MacMillan and Candace Savage

1:30pm

Sunday, October 25, 2020

45 mins

Join Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan for an in-depth conversation about her latest book, War: How Conflict Shaped Us. Professor at the University of Oxford, MacMillan shares insight on the ways in which war has influenced human society and how, in turn, changes in political organization, technology, or ideologies have affected how and why we fight. Her book Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, is winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for outstanding literary work.

Interviewer: Candace Savage

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Join Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan for an in-depth conversation about her latest book, War: How Conflict Shaped Us. Professor at the University of Oxford, MacMillan shares insight on the ways in which war has influenced human society and how, in turn, changes in political organization, technology, or ideologies have affected how and why we fight. Her book Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, is winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for outstanding literary work.

Interviewer: Candace Savage

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Featured Authors

Margaret MacMillan
Margaret MacMillan is emeritus professor of international history at the University of Oxford and professor of history at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD from Oxford University and became a member of the history faculty at Ryerson University in 1975.  In 2002 she became Provost of Trinity College at the University of Toronto and from 2007 to 2017 she was the Warden of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University. Her previous books include Paris 1919, The War That Ended Peace, Nixon and Mao, Dangerous Games, and Women of the Raj.

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Candace Savage
Candace Savage was born in the Peace River Country of northern Alberta and educated at the University of Alberta, but saw the light and moved to Saskatchewan half a lifetime ago. She is the award-winning author of more than two dozen books including Strangers in the House and Hello, Crow!, both published in 2019. Her previous title, A Geography of Blood (2012) won three Saskatchewan Book Awards, plus the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, and was featured by the Saskatchewan Library Association in their One Book One Province project in 2020.  She shares her time between Eastend and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 

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1:30pm

Sunday, October 25

45 mins

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