Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth CenturyKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 20 mag 2009 - 512 pagine 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. |
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Empires Nations Minorities | 61 |
Healthy Bodies Sick Bodies | 76 |
The Crisis of Capitalism | 104 |
Hitlers New Order 193845 | 138 |
Blueprints for the Golden Age | 182 |
A Brutal Peace 19439 | 212 |
Building Peoples Democracy | 250 |
Western Europe 195075 | 286 |
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