Dark Continent Europe's Twentieth Century

Name: Dark Continent Europe's Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780679757047

ISBN-10: 067975704X

ISBN-13: 9780679757047

Edition: 2000

Authors: Mark Mazower

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"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…

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/14/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.87" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.880

Mark Mazower is a professor of history at Princeton University and has recently been appointed professor of history at Birkbeck College, London. He is the author of several books, most recently Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century.



Preface



The Deserted Temple: Democracy's Rise and Fall



Empires, Nations, Minorities



Healthy Bodies, Sick Bodies



The Crisis of Capitalism



Hitler's New Order, 1938-45



Blueprints for the Golden Age



A Brutal Peace, 1943-9



Building People's Democracy



Democracy Transformed: Western Europe, 1950-75



The Social Contract in Crisis



Sharks and Dolphins: The Collapse of Communism


Epilogue: Making Europe


Maps and Tables


Notes


Guide to Further Reading


Index