Durante la mayor parte de la historia, el antisemitismo se ha entendido como una amenaza proveniente de la derecha política en Europa hacia la población judía, que culminó con la pesadilla de la Alemania nazi y el Holocausto....
En este libro de memorias, el historiador Mark Mazower compone un fresco conmovedor de su propia familia que, por azares del destino, pasó por el sitio de Leningrado, el gueto de Vilna, el París ocupado e incluso por las filas de la Wehrmach...
La historia de la cooperación global es una historia repleta de soñadores, que nos incita a encontrar una causa común que pueda ayudar a remediar los peores problemas de la humanidad. Sin embargo, las instituciones internacionales...
La imagen más extendida actualmente de Europa es la de un continente construido sobre el consenso democrático. Mark Mazower, en esta sugerente obra, nos invita a reflexionar sobre esta idea.
Mark Mazower is the author of Inside Hitler's Greece, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century , The Balkans , which won the Wolfson Prize for History, and Salonika: City of Ghosts, which won both the Runcima
In 1815 the shocked and exhausted victors of the decades of fighting that had engulfed Europe for a generation agreed to a new system for keeping the peace. Instead of independent states changing sides, doing deals and betraying one another, a new, colleg...
No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popular myth...
Draw ing on an unprecedented range and variety of original research, Hitler?s Empire sheds new light on how the Nazis designed, maintained, and lost their European dominion?and offers a chilling vision of what the world would have become had they won the...
Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of Europe in history. Inspired by the imperial legacy of those such as the British, the Third Reich cast its shadow from the Channel Islands to the Caucasus and ruled hundreds...
This book is the first full exploration of the experience of occupation- from the perspective of those that endured it and from those that imposed it -it tells the stories of resistance fighters and black marketeers, teenage German conscripts and Gestapo...
Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three, separate decades of international and civil war, and was marred in forced migration and wrenching systematic changes. This book is the result of a year-long project by the Open Society Institute to exam...
Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. In this highly acclaimed short history, Mark Mazower...
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...
The history of a rarely written about, bewilderingly exotic city: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. Salonica is the point where the wonders and horrors...
This volume makes available some of the most exciting research currently underway into Greek society after Liberation. Together, its essays map a new social history of Greece in the 1940s and 1950s, a period in which the country grappled--bloodily--with...