Margaret MacMillan

Professor of International History, University of Oxford

University of Oxford

1 standalone talk · 1 total lecture · 1h recorded

History & Humanities

Standalone talks by Margaret MacMillan

Self-contained public lectures, keynote addresses, and research seminars.

European Society and the Road to War, 1814–1914

52:55

History·Public Colloquium

European Society and the Road to War, 1814–1914

Margaret MacMillan·University of Oxford

Analyzes how a century of European peace, globalization, and alliance diplomacy unraveled in the summer of 1914 through contingency, miscalculation, and strategic rigidity.