War : how conflict shaped us / Margaret Macmillan.

By:

MacMillan, Margaret, 1943- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Gupta, Deepti [narrator.]

Material type: Sound

SoundPublisher number: DC102885 | CNIBProducer: Toronto : CNIB, 2020Publisher: Toronto : CELA, 2020Description: 1 computer optical disc (10 hr., 42 min.) : sound ; 12 cmContent type:

spoken word

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

computer disc

ISBN:

9780221076428
0221076425

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

355.0209 23/eng/20230216

LOC classification:

D25.5 .M285 2020ab

Other classification:

af101fs

Available additional physical forms:

Issued also in online resource format.

Read by Deepti Gupta.Summary: The instinct to fight may be innate in human nature, but war--organized violence--comes with organized society. War has shaped humanity's history, its social and political institutions, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, and 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 both the vilest and the noblest aspects of humanity. Margaret MacMillan looks at 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. Explores such much-debated and controversial questions as: When did war first start? Does human nature doom us to fight one another? Why has war been described as the most organized of all human activities? Why are warriors almost always men? Is war ever within our control? Drawing on lessons from wars throughout the past, from classical history to the present day, MacMillan reveals the many faces of war--the way it has determined our past, our future, our views of the world, and our very conception of ourselves. 2020.

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Read by Deepti Gupta.

Audio and text.

The instinct to fight may be innate in human nature, but war--organized violence--comes with organized society. War has shaped humanity's history, its social and political institutions, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, and 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 both the vilest and the noblest aspects of humanity. Margaret MacMillan looks at 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. Explores such much-debated and controversial questions as: When did war first start? Does human nature doom us to fight one another? Why has war been described as the most organized of all human activities? Why are warriors almost always men? Is war ever within our control? Drawing on lessons from wars throughout the past, from classical history to the present day, MacMillan reveals the many faces of war--the way it has determined our past, our future, our views of the world, and our very conception of ourselves. 2020.

Issued also in online resource format.

DAISY reproduction. [New York] : Random House Audio, 2020.

Reproduced from: [New York] : Random House Audio, 2020. 9780593209936

Digital to DAISY.

DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps.

Studio original.