Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century - Rilegato

Mazower, Mark

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0679438092 ISBN 13: 9780679438090

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

Riassunto

A study of the twentieth-century history of Europe explores the struggle for control among liberal democracy, communism, and fascism, tracing the ideological, economic, political, and military factors that transformed the face of Europe since the end of World War I

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L'autore:

Mark Mazower is Reader in History at the University of Sussex. He is the author of the prizewinning Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44. He writes and broadcasts regularly on current developments in the Balkans.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

ontinent is a searching history of Europe's most brutal century. Stripping away the comforting myths and illusions that we have grown up with since the Second World War, Mark Mazower presents an unflinching account of a continent locked in a finely balanced struggle between tolerance and racial extermination, imperial ambition and national self-determination, liberty and the tyrannies of Right and Left. It is an attempt to trace the origins of "Western values"--the ideological terms we now live by--and to ask what remains of the struggles of previous generations.

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 Europe

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0679438092
• ISBN 13: 9780679438090
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 487