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Die große Gesamtdarstellung Griechenlands im Zweiten Weltkrieg und der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Folgen der brutalen deutschen Besatzung. Von dem bekannten und vielfach ausgezeichneten Historiker Mark Mazower, Autor des Bestsellers >Hitlers Imperium. Europa unter der Herrschaft des Nationalsozialismus<. 1941 marschierte die deutsche Wehrmacht in Griechenland ein und führte bis 1944 ein brutales Besatzungsregime. Mark Mazower schilder...

The role of the police has, from its beginnings, been ambiguous, even janus-faced. This volume focuses on one of its controversial aspects by showing how the police have been utilized in the past by regimes in Europe, the USA and the British Empire to check political dissent and social unrest.

A majestic narrative reckoning with the forces that have shaped the nature and destiny of the world's governing institutionsThe story of global cooperation is a tale of dreamers goading us to find common cause in remedying humanity's worst problems. But international institutions are also tools for the powers that be to advance their own interests. Mark Mazower's Governing the World tells the epic, two-hundred-year story of that inevitable ten...

A useful, important book that reminds us, at the right time, how hard [European unity] has been, and how much care must be taken to avoid the terrible old temptations." --"Los Angeles Times 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 effo...

Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, this book sheds light on what has been called the tinderbox of Europe, whose troubles have ignited wider wars for hundreds of years.

Una storia innovativa dell'Europa del Novecento, una ricostruzione di lungo periodo centrata sulle trasformazioni della società e sul rapporto tra le costruzioni ideologiche e le vicende politiche, che riesce a cogliere le ragioni di fondo di alcune scelte e le scansioni non apparenti della storia del secolo. A essere esaminati e discussi sono l'identità dell'Europa, il suo sistema di valori, i conflitti che l'hanno dilaniata, ma anche la comb...

Presents perspectives on modern Greek society and its historical development. This book illuminates issues, such as the way nation-states emerged from empire, the relationship between family and ideological conflict, the continued relevance of religious meanings to modern daily life - that remain fundamental to understanding contemporary Europe.

Drawing on an unprecedented variety of sources, Mazower reveals how the Nazis designed, maintained, and ultimately lost their European empire, and offers a chilling vision of the world Hitler would have made had he won the war.

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 officers, Jews and starving villagers.

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Mark Mazower is the author of Inside Hitler¿s Greece, The Balkans, which won the Wolfson Prize for History and Salonika: City of Ghosts, which won both the Runciman Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize and Hitler's Empire, publishing in June 2008. He has taught at the University of Sussex, Princeton University and Birkbeck College, University of London. He is now Professor of History at Columbia University.

A dazzling short history of the Balkans from the Romans to the present, which provides vital historical and cultural background to contemporary Balkan politics.

Europa im Jahr 1942: Hitler kontrollierte eine Landmasse, die größer als die USA, dichter besiedelt und wirtschaftlich produktiver als jede andere war. Das Ziel der Nationalsozialisten, "Herren in Europa" zu werden, schien nahezu erreicht. Auch wenn die Tatsache 1945 rasch in Vergessenheit geriet: Die besetzten Länder in Europa kooperierten, sie lieferten Deutschland, was es an Menschen und Material forderte. Mark Mazower schildert, gestützt a...