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History's People - Personalities and the Past (Paperback, Main)
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History's People - Personalities and the Past (Paperback, Main)
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What difference do individuals make to history? Are we all swept up
in the great forces like industrialisation or globalisation, or is
the world we inhabit shaped just as much by real people - leaders
for example - and the decisions that they make? For better or for
worse, the personalities of the powerful can affect millions of
people and the future of countries: it matters who is in the
driving seat, and who is making plans. Equally important: how is
history itself made by those who keep the records? In History's
People Margaret Macmillan explores the lives of the great and
lesser-known figures of the past: men, women, explorers, rulers,
dreamers, politicians, observers, campaigners. She looks at the
concept of leadership, from Bismarck to Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
but also at the role of observers such as Babur, first Mughal
emperor of India, and asks how explorers and visionaries such as
Fanny Parkes and Elizabeth Simcoe managed to defy or ignore the
constraints of their own societies. And, in doing so, she uncovers
the important and complex relationship between biography and
history, and between individuals and their times. Like all the best
history, this book will change the way you see the past, as well as
your own times - and perhaps introduce you to some people you
didn't know.
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