Dark continent : Europe's twentieth century

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Title:

Dark continent : Europe's twentieth century

Author:

Mazower, Mark.

ISBN:

9780679757047

9780679438090

Personal Author:

Mazower, Mark.

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publication Information:

New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999.

Physical Description:

xvi, 487 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Contents:

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.

Abstract:

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.

Geographic Term:

Europe -- History -- 20th century.

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random049/98015886.html

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Summary

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.