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Modern Library chroniclesMacMillan, Margaret
Summary: Explores the ways in which history has been used to influence people and government, focusing on how reportage of past events has been manipulated to justify religious movements and political campaigns.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 901 MACMMacMillan, Margaret
Summary: "This book looks at one of the transformative moments of the twentieth century: In February 1972, Richard Nixon, the first American president ever to visit China, and Mao Tse-tung, the enigmatic Communist dictator, met for an hour in Beijing. Their meeting changed the course of history and ultimately laid the groundwork for today's complex relationship between the countries. That monumental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.7305 MACMacMillan, Margaret
Summary: "War, the instinct to fight, is inherent in human nature; peace is the aberration in history. War has shaped humanity, its institutions, its states, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war. War is an uncomfortable and challenging subject not least because it brings out the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0209 MACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 355.0209 MACMacMillan, Margaret
Summary: By 1972 the U.S. was still mired in Vietnam, and China was reeling from the changes wrought by the cultural revolution. In February of that year the leaders of these two great nations sat down for talks for the first time since 1949. Nixon and Mao both hoped to secure trade and diplomatic relations, but did either get what they truly wanted? MacMillan answers this question and countless others,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.7305 MACMacMillan, Margaret
Summary: Presents a narrative portrait of Europe in the years leading up to World War I that illuminates the political, cultural, and economic factors and contributing personalities that shaped major events.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.311 MACMacmillan, Margaret Burnham
Contents: v. 1. The nineteenth century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan Area Methodist Historical Society 1967