Dark Continent by Mark Mazower

Dark Continent by Mark Mazower

An unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future.

"[A] splendid book." --The New York Times Book Review

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.

Ira D. Mazower is the Ira D. Mazower is the Ira D. Mazower is Columbia University's Wallach Professor of History He is the author of several books, including Hitler's Empire and The Balkans: A Brief History, which won the Wolfson Award for History. He currently resides in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780679757047
ISBN 10	067975704X
Title	Dark Continent
Author	Mark Mazower
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2000-03-14
Number of pages	512
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