Dark Continent 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.--jacket. 1. The Deserted Temple: Democracy's Rise And Fall -- 2. Empires, Nations, Minorities -- 3. Healthy Bodies, Sick Bodies -- 4. The Crisis Of Capitalism -- 5. Hitler's New Order, 1938-45 -- 6. Blueprints For The Golden Age -- 7. A Brutal Peace, 1943-9 -- 8. Building People's Democracy -- 9. Democracy Transformed: Western Europe, 1950-75 -- 10. The Social Contract In Crisis -- 11. Sharks And Dolphins: The Collapse Of Communism -- Epilogue: Making Europe. Mark Mazower. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 417-449) And Index.
Categories:
- History
- World
Publisher : Knopf
Author : Mazower, Mark
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :1999-01-09
Number Of Pages : 512
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0679438092
ISBN-13 : 9780679438090
Item weight : 1.95 lb
Dimensions : 1.6 in x 6.3 in x 9.3 in
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