Dark Continent - Europe's Twentieth Century 0679438092, 9780679438090

It is an attempt to trace the origins of "Western values"--the ideological terms we now live by--and to ask wh

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English Pages 512 [504] Year 1999

Dark Continent - Europe's Twentieth Century
0679438092, 9780679438090

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Mark Mazower

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
1 The Deserted Temple: Democracy’s Rise and Fall
2 Empires, Natidns, 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, 1 9 50-75
10 The Social Contract in Crisis
11 Sharks and Dolphins: The Collapse of Communism
Epilogue: Making Europe
Maps and Tables
Notes
Guide to Further Reading
Index

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