Author

Publication

1999 - A.A. Knopf, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

121,750 words, Guess

Page Count

487 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • DDC940.55
  • LCCD424 .M39 1999

Description

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.

First Sentence

At a "Congress of Dethroned Monarchs" held at Geneva in 192-Europe's erstwhile crowned heads tried to win back their old supporters.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Dark continent: Europe's twentieth centuryA.A. Knopf1999-01-01

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