Duister Continent
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Dark Continent
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Author : Mark Mazower
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-09-27
Dark Continent written by Mark Mazower and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-27 with History categories.
From award-winning historian Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century retells the story of a century of division, charting the struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world order for mankind. The end of the First World War saw old empires swept away and the opportunity to build a better society from the ruins. Yet the result was division and bloodshed on an unprecedented scale, as liberal democracy, communism and fascism struggled against one another for mastery of the world. Dark Continent radically overturns the myth of Europe as a safe haven of democracy to redefine our view of the twentieth century. 'Original, thought-provoking, iconoclastic' Frank McLynn, Irish Times 'Fascinating and forceful' Martin Gilbert, Literary Review 'Mazower leaves us, in this wonderful book, with an account of our century that anyone who takes an interest in Europe's present and future will enlarge their mind by reading' John Keegan, Daily Telegraph 'There are few who can walk with A.J.P. Taylor. One is Mark Mazower ... a tour de force' Alex Danchev, TLS 'Combines narrative verve with wise and humane analysis. For anyone who wants to know how Europe came to be the way it is in the years since 1900, this is the work to provide the answers' David Cannadine, Observer Books of the Year Mark Mazower is the author of Inside Hitler's Greece, The Balkans, which won the Wolfson Prize for History, Salonika: City of Ghosts, which won both the Runciman Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize and Hitler's Empire.
Duister Continent
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Author : Mark Mazower
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Duister Continent written by Mark Mazower and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Analyse van de geschiedenis van Europa in de twintigste eeuw.
In The Dark Continent
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
In The Dark Continent written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Algeria categories.
Governing The World
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Author : Mark Mazower
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-09-13
Governing The World written by Mark Mazower and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-13 with Political Science categories.
The story of global cooperation between nations and peoples is a tale of dreamers goading us to find common cause in remedying humanity’s worst problems. But international institutions have also provided a tool for the powers that be to advance their own interests and stamp their imprint on the world. Mark Mazower’s Governing the World tells the epic story of that inevitable and irresolvable tension—the unstable and often surprising alchemy between ideas and power. From the beginning, the willingness of national leaders to cooperate has been spurred by crisis: the book opens in 1815, amid the rubble of the Napoleonic Empire, as the Concert of Europe was assembled with an avowed mission to prevent any single power from dominating the continent and to stamp out revolutionary agitation before it could lead to war. But if the Concert was a response to Napoleon, internationalism was a response to the Concert, and as courts and monarchs disintegrated they were replaced by revolutionaries and bureaucrats. 19th century internationalists included bomb-throwing anarchists and the secret policemen who fought them, Marxist revolutionaries and respectable free marketeers. But they all embraced nationalism, the age’s most powerful transformative political creed, and assumed that nationalism and internationalism would go hand in hand. The wars of the twentieth century saw the birth of institutions that enshrined many of those ideals in durable structures of authority, most notably the League of Nations in World War I and the United Nations after World War II. Throughout this history, we see that international institutions are only as strong as the great powers of the moment allow them to be. The League was intended to prop up the British empire. With Washington taking over world leadership from Whitehall, the United Nations became a useful extension of American power. But as Mazower shows us, from the late 1960s on, America lost control over the dialogue and the rise of the independent Third World saw a marked shift away from the United Nations and toward more pliable tools such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. From the 1990s to 2007, Governing the World centers on a new regime of global coordination built upon economic rule-making by central bankers and finance ministers, a regime in which the interests of citizens and workers are trumped by the iron logic of markets. Now, the era of Western dominance of international life is fast coming to an end and a new multi-centered global balance of forces is emerging. We are living in a time of extreme confusion about the purpose and durability of our international institutions. History is not prophecy, but Mark Mazower shows us why the current dialectic between ideals and power politics in the international arena is just another stage in an epic two-hundred-year story.
The Lost Continent
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Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-08-29
The Lost Continent written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-29 with Fiction categories.
War had devastated the entire eastern hemisphere. For two hundred years America had lived in civilized isolation, while Europe had lapsed into legend. Jefferson Turck was the first man who dared recross the 30th meridian, and like Columbus centuries before him, he landed in a New World. For Europe had become the jungle home of savage beasts and her people had banded together in bloodthirsty tribes led by barbarian queens.
Etty Hillesum In Discours
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Author : Ria van den Brandt
language : nl
Publisher: Academia Press
Release Date : 2012
Etty Hillesum In Discours written by Ria van den Brandt and has been published by Academia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Als er één ding opvalt in de publicaties over Etty Hillesum, dan is het wel dat er zoveel verschillende discoursen rondom haar nalatenschap zijn. Etty Hillesum is en blijft voortdurend in discours, vanuit een wonderlijke hoeveelheid perspectieven en vraagstellingen, al dan niet ingegeven door nieuw gevonden materiaal. Deze derde uitgave van de 'Etty Hillesum Studies' besteedt aandacht aan 'nieuwe vondsten', zoals blocnotevelletjes, oude brieven, beschreven boekjes, losse aantekeningen en andere historische documenten. Het historische en literair-historische onderzoek rondom Hillesum gaat onverwijld door en draagt bij aan een meer wetenschappelijk verantwoord beeld van Hillesum en haar geschriften. Daarnaast is in deze bundel aandacht voor diverse thema's en vragen rondom Etty Hillesum, zoals haar verondersteld martelaarschap, haar betekenis als getuige van de Sjoa en de verschillende aspecten van haar spiritualiteit. In dit derde deel komt ook de Franstalige receptie van Hillesums nalatenschap aan bod.
The Continent
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Author : Keira Drake
language : en
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date : 2018-04-01
The Continent written by Keira Drake and has been published by Harlequin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-01 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
“Have we really come so far, when a tour of the Continent is so desirable a thing? We’ve traded our swords for treaties, our daggers for promises—but our thirst for violence has never been quelled. And that’s the crux of it—it can’t be quelled. It’s human nature.” For her sixteenth birthday, Vaela Sun receives the most coveted gift in all the Spire—a trip to the Continent. It seems an unlikely destination for a holiday: a cold, desolate land where two nations remain perpetually locked in combat. Most citizens lucky enough to tour the Continent do so to observe the spectacle and violence of battle, a thing long vanished in the peaceful realm of the Spire. For Vaela, the war holds little interest. As a talented apprentice cartographer and a descendant of the Continent herself, she sees the journey as a dream come true: a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to improve upon the maps she’s drawn of this vast, frozen land. But Vaela’s dream all too quickly turns to nightmare as the journey brings her face-to-face with the brutal reality of a war she’s only read about. Observing from the safety of a heli-plane, Vaela is forever changed by the sight of the bloody battle being waged far beneath her. And when a tragic accident leaves her stranded on the Continent, Vaela finds herself much closer to danger than she’d ever imagined—and with an entirely new perspective as to what war truly means. Starving, alone and lost in the middle of a war zone, Vaela must try to find a way home—but first, she must survive.
A Van Abyssaal
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Author : Francis Smets
language : nl
Publisher: Garant
Release Date : 2002
A Van Abyssaal written by Francis Smets and has been published by Garant this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Art categories.
Europa
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Author : Timothy Garton Ash
language : nl
Publisher: Singel Uitgeverijen
Release Date : 2023-03-14
Europa written by Timothy Garton Ash and has been published by Singel Uitgeverijen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-14 with Literary Collections categories.
‘Timothy Garton Ash beschrijft de naoorlogse Europese geschiedenis met zeer persoonlijke en anekdotische accenten. Die verklaren niet alleen zijn duidelijke politieke stellingnames over Brexit, de positie van Centraal-Europa of de oorlog in Oekraïne, maar maken dit boek ook bijzonder leesbaar.’ – Caroline de Gruyter Europa is een persoonlijke geschiedenis van een periode van ongekende vooruitgang. Een heldere en beklijvende getuigenis van wat er is misgegaan: van de financiële crisis van 2008 tot de oorlog in Oekraïne. Alles wat we in Europa hebben bereikt, staat nu op het spel. Met Europa roept Timothy Garton Ash ons op om dat wat we hebben bereikt te verdedigen.
Dark Continent
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Author : Mark Mazower
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 1999
Dark Continent written by Mark Mazower and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
This original and thought-provoking study examines the history of Europe in the 20th century in light of the century-long struggle for dominance between liberal democracy, communism, and fascism. 10 maps.