Governing the World The History of an Idea

Name: Governing the World The History of an Idea
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ISBN: 9781594203497

ISBN-10: 1594203490

ISBN-13: 9781594203497

Edition: 2012

Authors: Mark Mazower

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A history of the project of world government, from the first post-Napoleonic visions of the brotherhood of man to the current crisis of global finance.The Napoleonic Wars showed Europe what sort of damage warring states could do. But how could sovereign nations be made to share power and learn to look beyond their own narrow interests? The old monarchs had one idea. Mazzini and the partisans of nationalist democracy had another, and so did Marx and the radical Left.It is an argument that has raged for two hundred years now, and Mark Mazower tells its history enthrallingly inGoverning the World. With each era, the stakes have grown higher as the world has grown smaller and the potential…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/13/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

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.



Introduction



The Era of Internationalism


Prologue: The Concert of Europe, 1815-1914



Under the Sign of the International



Brotherhood



The Empire of Law



Science the Unifier



The League of Nations



The Battle of Ideologies



Governing the World the American Way



"The League Is Dead. Long Live the United Nations."



Cold War Realities, 1945-49



The Second World, and the Third



Development as World-Making, 1949-73



The United States in Opposition



The Real New International Economic Order



Humanity's Law



What Remains: The Crisis in Europe and After


Notes


Index