Professor Margaret MacMillan interviewed on the War that Ended Peace

Margaret MacMillan has been interviewed in The Globe and Mail (22 March) on her new book The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914.

The work has been nominated for the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

The full interview can be read here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/globe-politics-insider/margaret-macmillan-how-today-is-like-the-period-before-the-first-world-war/article17626075/

In it she is quoted as saying: Living through times of rapid change can be exhilarating but it also can be very difficult. And not everybody wins when you have rapid globalization, which is what you had before 1914 and what youre having today. The world since the 1990s has been knitted together in increasingly tight ways. That causes strains, and you get a lot of social change.