Quotes from Margaret MacMillan

The peacemakers were besieged by petitioners. One of the more glamorous was Queen Marie of Rumania, who arrived in Paris with a large entourage, a huge wardrobe and demands for about half of Hungary

thinking of themselves as members of a "nation," sharing such characteristics as culture, language, history, religion, customs and, on the edge where racial theories flourished, biology.

As Gustave Flaubert said, "I defend the poor Republic but I don't believe in it.

In Vienna, the rising politician Karl Lueger discovered that he could mobilize the lower classes by appealing to their fears of change and capitalism, their resentment of the prosperous middle classes, and their hatred of Jews, who came to stand in for the first two. He did so with such success that he became a mayor, over the opposition of Franz Joseph, in 1897 and remained, highly popular, in office until he died in 1910.

A medida que ha mejorado nuestra capacidad para matar, también nos hemos vuelto menos tolerantes con la violencia.

Nos inspira miedo, pero también nos fascina. Su crueldad y su despilfarro pueden horrorizarnos, pero también somos capaces de admirar la valentía del soldado y sentir su peligrosa atracción. Algunos

Among artists, Pissarro and Monet were Dreyfusard, Degas and Cézanne Anti.

Yet militarism was a more general phenomenon across Europe and throughout societies. In Britain small children wore sailor suits and on the Continent schoolchildren frequently wore little uniforms; secondary schools and universities had cadet corps;

Between 1890 and 1911 there was a 200 percent increase in the numbers of bureaucrats, most of them new appointments. In Austria alone there were 3 million civil servants for a total population of some 28 million. Even

La violencia no es guerra a menos que se lleve a cabo en nombre de una unidad política […]".

La guerra –violencia organizada con un propósito entre dos unidades políticas– se fue volviendo más elaborada cuando desarrollamos sociedades sedentarias establecidas y ayudó a que estas fueran más organizadas y poderosas. De

Al igual que la mayor parte de especies, de aves a mamíferos, somos territoriales, pero también somos seres sensibles y tenemos capacidad de decisión, de escuchar a la mejor parte de nuestra naturaleza o a la peor. Hemos creado culturas que establecen

Las pruebas arqueológicas e históricas apuntan resueltamente hacia Hobbes y hacia la guerra como parte integral y duradera de la experiencia humana.

War is not an aberration, best forgotten as quickly as possible.

There are only two perfectly useless things in the world," he quipped. "One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré!

Los romanos solían levantar columnas y arcos de la victoria en honor a la gloria del emperador y del Estado.

monopolio cada vez mayor del uso de la fuerza

Los mejores leviatanes tienen leyes coherentes, impuestos razonables y garantizan la propiedad y, en algunos casos, como en

3053Geography also gave Russia a rich choice of potential enemies.

Living through times of rapid change can be exhilarating, but it also can be very difficult.

When I first read Barbara Tuchman's 'The Guns of August' in the autumn of 1963, it was as though history went from black and white to Technicolor.

I've always loved reading diaries and memoirs and just getting a sense of different personalities and what made them tick as individuals.

The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination.

Use it, enjoy it, but always handle history with care.