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Balkans, The by Mark Mazower
Category: History | Series: Universal History Ser.
At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe forever. But two hundred years earlier, the Balkans did not exist. It was not the Balkans but the
Balkans, The by Mazower, Mark
Category: History
At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe forever. But two hundred years earlier, the Balkans did not exist. It was not the Balkans but the Rumeli that the Ottomans ruled, the formerly Roman lands that they had conquered from Byzantium, together with its Chris ...Show more
Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower
Category: Popular History
"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 w ...Show more
Dark Continent - Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower
Category: History
This is an ambitious history of 20th-century Europe. It expands the frontiers of Europe outwards to include not only Portugal and Ireland but also, and significantly, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. It also overturns the conventional myth of Europe as the cradle and safe haven of democracy and liberal v ...Show more
Governing the World: The History of an Idea by Mark Mazower
Category: History
From the acclaimed, award-winning author of "Dark Continent" and "Hitler's Empire", comes a visionary, far-reaching history of two centuries of international government that also goes to the heart of current world crises. In 1815 the shocked and exhausted victors of the decades of fighting that had engu ...Show more
Governing the World: The History of an Idea by Mark Mazower
Category: History
The compelling and provocative history of world government, from acclaimed author Mark Mazower. In 1815 the shocked and exhausted victors of the decades of fighting that had engulfed Europe for a generation agreed to a new system for keeping the peace. Instead of independent states changing sides, doing ...Show more
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower
Category: History
Hitler's Empire constituted the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of the continent ever attempted in Europe's history. Liberalism and democracy were swept aside, as Germany aimed to turn itself into the most powerful state on the continent, and to compel everyone else to recognize its ma ...Show more
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower
Category: History
Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of Europe in history. Inspired by the imperial legacy of those such as the British, the Third Reich cast its shadow from the Channel Islands to the Caucasus and ruled hundreds of millions. Yet, as Mark Mazower's groundbreaking new ...Show more
No Enchanted Palace - The end of empire and the Ideological origins of the United Nations by Mark Mazower
Category: World History | Series: Lawrence Stone Lectures
"No Enchanted Palace" traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popular myth that the UN miraculously rose from the ashes of ...Show more
Salonica, City of Ghosts Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower
Category: History
Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until ...Show more
Salonica, City of Ghosts : Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower
Category: History
The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. Salonica is the point where the wonders and horrors of the Orient and Europe have met over the centuries ...Show more