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 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. Unflinching, intelligent, Dark Continent provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future-and confirms Mark Mazower as a historian of valuable gifts. |
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Käyttäjän arvio - michaelgambill - LibraryThingA breath-taking analysis of the European family sometimes uneasy and conflicted relationship in the 20th Century. It is not always an easy read but it is enormously revealing and enlightening if you ... Lue koko arvostelu
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Käyttäjän arvio - iftyzaidi - LibraryThingOutstanding. The best general history book I've read on Europe in the twentieth century. Identifies and analyses the most important trends on the continent and really makes sense of Europe as a whole. Lue koko arvostelu
Sisältö
Empires Nations Minorities | 41 |
The Social Contract in Crisis | 327 |
The Collapse of Communism | 361 |
Making Europe | 395 |
Notes | 417 |
Guide to Further Reading | 452 |
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Allies American argued Austria authoritarian Balkans became bourgeois Britain British Cambridge camps capitalism cent century Cited civil Cold War collapse communism communist conservative constitution continent countries crisis culture Czech Czechoslovakia decade democracy E. H. Carr east European eastern Europe economic emerged empire ethnic Europe's Fascist forced foreign France French German Greece growth History Hitler Hungarian Hungary idea ideology imperial increasingly individual industrial inter-war Italian Italy Jewish Jews labour League of Nations less liberal London mass ment million minorities modern Moscow nation-state nationalist Nazi Nazi Germany Nazism numbers op.cit Oxford Party peace peasants planning Poland Polish political popular population post-war pre-war problem race racial reform refugees regime resistance revolution Romania rule Russian Social Democrats socialist society Soviet Union Stalin struggle Third Reich tion Ukraine Ukrainians unemployment wartime welfare West West Germany western women workers wrote York Yugoslavia
Kirjaluettelon tiedot
| Otsikko | Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century |
| Kirjoittaja | Mark Mazower |
| Painos | uusintapainos |
| Kustantaja | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009 |
| ISBN | 030755550X, 9780307555502 |
| Pituus | 512 sivua |
| Vie sitaatti | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |