General Information

Author/Creator

Mazower, Mark, 1958-

Language

English.

Published

New York : Vintage Books ; Distributed by Random House, 2000.

Physical Description

xvi, 487 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

Instead of seeing Europe as the natural home of freedom and democracy, Mazower argues that it was a frequently nightmarish laboratory for social and political engineering, inventing and reinventing itself through war, revolution and ideological competition. Fascism and communism should be regarded not as exceptions to the general rule of democracy, but as alternative forms of government that attracted many Europeans by offering different solutions to the challenges of the modern world. By 1940 the prospects for democratic government looked bleak, and Europe's future seemed to lie in Hitler's hands. Yet freedom was given another chance with the defeat of the Nazi New Order, and it prevailed decades later across the continent with the collapse of the Iron Curtain. Mazower's extraordinarily skilled and insightful analysis provides us with a new perspective on the events of the century. From the beginnings of the First World War to the establishment of the European Union, he depicts a battle for hearts and minds that reached more deeply than ever before into the daily lives of ordinary people. Vividly written and vigorously argued, Dark Continent presents both a comprehensive history of twentieth-century Europe and a provocative vision of its future.--from the publisher

Subjects

Subject

Europe > History > 20th century.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Mark Mazower.

ISBN

067975704

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	940.55 MAZ		OSA Repository	Donation of School of Public Policy.

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