War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
War: How Conflict Shaped Us is a 2020 book by the Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan, author of Paris 1919, published by Random House and based on her BBC Reith Lectures. Ranging from ancient times to the present, MacMillan argues that war is not an aberration but has been bound up with human society from the beginning, shaping states, technology, art and ideas. She explores why we fight, how societies organize for war, who fights, and how war has been imagined, remembered and commemorated.
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- Margaret Atwood: “Margaret MacMillan’s War: How Conflict Shaped Us. Yes, war is icky, but that’s no reason not to study it, universities. In fact it’s a very good reason TO study it.”