This is an ambitious history of 20th-century Europe. It expands the frontiers of Europe outwards to include not only Portugal and Ireland but also, and significantly, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. It also overturns the conventional myth of Europe as the cradle and safe haven of democracy and liberal values and shows how fragile they are.
This is an ambitious history of 20th-century Europe. It expands the frontiers of Europe outwards to include not only Portugal and Ireland but also, an...
The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation.
The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman th...
'Hitler's Empire' charts the landscape of the Nazi imperial imagination - from those economists who dreamed of turning Europe into a huge market for German business, to Hitler's own plans for new trans-continental motorways passing over the ethnically cleansed Russian steppe.
'Hitler's Empire' charts the landscape of the Nazi imperial imagination - from those economists who dreamed of turning Europe into a huge market for G...
From the acclaimed, award-winning author of 'Dark Continent' and 'Hitler's Empire', comes a visionary, far-reaching history of two centuries of international government that also goes to the heart of current world crises.
From the acclaimed, award-winning author of 'Dark Continent' and 'Hitler's Empire', comes a visionary, far-reaching history of two centuries of intern...
This gripping and richly illustrated account of wartime Greece explores the impact of the Nazi Occupation upon the lives and values of ordinary people. The first full account of the experience of occupation, it offers a vividly human picture of resistance fighters and black marketeers, teenage German conscripts and Gestapo officers, Jews and starving villagers. "Fascinating. . . . Mazower] succeeds in getting under the skin of the occupation. . . . This book] conjures up, in vivid detail, life under an occupation that had shattered old certainties and replaced them with painful choices,...
This gripping and richly illustrated account of wartime Greece explores the impact of the Nazi Occupation upon the lives and values of ordinary people...
At the end of the 20th century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe forever. But 200 years earlier, the Balkans did not exist. It was not the Balkans but the Rumeli that the Ottomans ruled, the formerly Roman lands that they had conquered from Byzantium, together with its Christian inhabitants. In this account of the region Mark Mazower dispels current Western cliches and replaces stereotypes with a vivid account of how mountains, empires and religions have shaped its inhabitants' lives. As a bridge between Europe and Asia it has been exposed to a constant incursion of nomadic...
At the end of the 20th century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe forever. But 200 years earlier, the Balkans did not exist. It was not...
Evropa Marka Mazowera není kontinentem starých států a národů, ale v mnoha ohledech je velmi nová a v průběhu 20. století neustále vynalézá samu sebe prostřednictvím často bouřlivých a chaotických politických změn. Moderní demokracie a s ní úzce spojený národní stát je v zásadě výsledkem experimentování. Tři ideologie – liberální demokracie, komunismus a fašismus – se považovaly za předurčené přetvořit společnost, kontinent a svět v nový řád lidstva. Jejich vzájemný boj o definici nové Evropy trval po většinu minulého století....
Evropa Marka Mazowera není kontinentem starých států a národů, ale v mnoha ohledech je velmi nová a v průběhu 20. století neustále vynaléz...
