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Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679757047)
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xAn unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future.
"[A] splendid book." --The New York Times Book Review
Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political solutions that battled and sometimes triumphed in an effort to determine the course the continent would take. Mark Mazower strips away myths that have comforted us since World War II, revealing Europe as an entity constantly engaged in a bloody project of self-invention. Here is a history not of inevitable victories and forward marches, but of narrow squeaks and unexpected twists, where townships boast a bronze of Mussolini on horseback one moment, only to melt it down and recast it as a pair of noble partisans the next.
Author: Mark Mazower
ISBN-10: 067975704X
ISBN-13: 9780679757047
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2000
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.10d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 03/12/2000 pg. 36
"[A] splendid book." --The New York Times Book Review
Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political solutions that battled and sometimes triumphed in an effort to determine the course the continent would take. Mark Mazower strips away myths that have comforted us since World War II, revealing Europe as an entity constantly engaged in a bloody project of self-invention. Here is a history not of inevitable victories and forward marches, but of narrow squeaks and unexpected twists, where townships boast a bronze of Mussolini on horseback one moment, only to melt it down and recast it as a pair of noble partisans the next.
Author: Mark Mazower
ISBN-10: 067975704X
ISBN-13: 9780679757047
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2000
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.10d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 03/12/2000 pg. 36
By Mark Mazower
xMARK MAZOWER is Reader in History at the University of Sussex. He is the author of the prizewinning Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44. He writes and broadcasts regularly on current developments in the Balkans.
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