Ebook {Epub PDF} Dark Continent: Europes Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower

The Dark Continent: Europe’s Struggle for Political Coherence. In Dark Continent, Mark Mazower critically analyses the history of the competing political ideologies that . The Dark Continent: Europe’s Struggle for Political Coherence. In Dark Continent, Mark Mazower critically analyses the history of the competing political ideologies that . dark continent europes twentieth century mark mazower Dark Continent - Europe's Twentieth Century "A useful, important book that reminds us, at the right time, how hard [European unity] has been, and how much care must be taken to avoid the terrible old temptations." --Los Angeles Times Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the.

Dark continent - Europe's twentieth century. 30 July John Bruton. This is the title of an excellent book by Mark Mazower, first published in , which I have just finished. Among the fascinating questions prompted by reading it are. In This Review. Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century. By Mark Mazower. pp, Alfred A. Knopf, Purchase. Mazower has written a timely book dissecting the notion of Europe" just as the EU launches its single currency. For him, this century's brutal first half -- with its bloody legacy of communism and fascism, world war, genocide. Mazower shapes his well-written history of Europe's 20th century as a struggle among liberal democracy, communism and fascism. Avoiding the pitfalls of Marxist interpretation on the one hand and capitalist triumphalism on the other, he shows how the failure of liberal democracy after WWI led to the experiment with fascism, which was defeated.

Mark Mazower is a historian and writer, specializing in modern Greece, twentieth-century Europe, and international history. His books include Salonica City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, –, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize; Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History; and Governing the World: The History of an Idea. To infer from this that Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century is therefore Britain-orientated or even an offensively British history of Europe would, however, be a mistake. Mazower's geopolitical coverage of the European continent is remarkably wide-ranging, reaching to countries which are often neglected in general surveys but without. Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century. By Mark Mazower. pp, Alfred A. Knopf, Purchase. Mazower has written a timely book dissecting the notion of Europe" just as the EU launches its single currency. For him, this century's brutal first half -- with its bloody legacy of communism and fascism, world war, genocide, and ethnic cleansing -- defined European identity as much as postwar liberal democracy did thereafter.