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Dark Continent

By Mark Mazower

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| Paperback | 9780140241594

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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 theContinue

"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 inevitable victories and forward marches, but of narrow squeaks and unexpected twists, where townships boast a bronze of Mussolini on horseback one moment, only to melt it down and recast it as a pair of noble partisans the next.  Unflinching, intelligent, Dark Continent provides a provocative vision of Europ's past, present, and future-and confirms Mark Mazower as a historian of valuable gifts.

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  • Can Europeans really find no way of living together in democracies other than living apart?

    Back in the now remote summer of 1990, when we were still celebrating the birth of a ‘new Europe’, a book was published simultaneously in several European languages. Written by Jean-Baptiste Duroselle and entitled, in the English edition, Europe: A H ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 512 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 0140241590
  • ISBN-13: 9780140241594
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Pub date: Jun 24, 1999
  • Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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