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Ranging across the Eastern Mediterranean and far beyond, he explores the central place of the struggle in the making of Romanticism and a new kind of politics that had volunteers flocking from across Europe to die in support of the Greeks. 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But two hundred years earlier, the Balkans did not exist. It was not the Balkans but the 'Rumeli' that the Ottomans ruled, the formerly Roman lands they had conquered from Byzantium, together with their Christian inhabitants.  In this original account of the region Mark Mazower dispels current Western clichés and replaces stereotypes with a vivid account of how mountains, empires and religions have shaped its inhabitants' lives. 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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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eDark Continent \u003c\/i\u003eradically overturns the myth of Europe as a safe haven of democracy to redefine our view of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Original, thought-provoking, iconoclastic' Frank McLynn, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Fascinating and forceful' Martin Gilbert, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  '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, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'There are few who can walk with A.J.P. Taylor. One is Mark Mazower ... a \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e' Alex Danchev, \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  '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, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eMark Mazower \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eInside Hitler's Greece\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Balkans\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Wolfson Prize for History, \u003ci\u003eSalonika: City of Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e, which won both the Runciman Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize and \u003ci\u003eHitler's Empire\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43399177142450,"sku":"9780140241594","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780140241594_5b48e539-4418-4d7f-930e-8742b62d2982.jpg?v=1786011090"},{"product_id":"9780241722909","title":"On Antisemitism","description":"What do we mean when we talk about antisemitism? A thoughtful, vital new intervention from the award-winning historian'An immense contribution... In tracing the evolving meaning of ‘antisemitism,’ [Mazower] demonstrates persuasively how we might turn it from a weapon back into a word... Rigorous and lucid' - Lily Meyer, The New Republic'For most of history, antisemitism has been understood as a menace from Europe’s political Right, the province of blood-and-soil ethno-nativists who built on Christendom’s long-standing suspicion of its Jewish population and infused it with racist pseudo-science. Such threats culminated in the nightmare of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.   The landscape is very different now, as Mark Mazower argues in this piercingly brilliant book. More than four-fifths of the world’s Jews now live in Israel and the United States, with the former’s military dominance of its region guaranteed by the latter while the loudest voices decrying antisemitism see it coming from the Left not the Right.   Mazower clearly and carefully shows us how we got here, seeking to illuminate rather than blame. Very few words have the punch of ‘antisemitism’ and yet no term is more liable to be misunderstood in ways affecting free speech and foreign policy alike. 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The first full account of the experience of occupation, it offers a vividly human picture of resistance fighters and black marketeers, teenage German conscripts and Gestapo officers, Jews and starving villagers.    \"Fascinating. . . . [Mazower] succeeds in getting under the skin of the occupation. . . . [This book] conjures up, in vivid detail, life under an occupation that had shattered old certainties and replaced them with painful choices, cynical compromises, and hopes undercut by the daily death toll.\" —Mark Almond, New York Times \"A vivid picture of the German occupier’s mind and actions. . . . Mazower’s arguments are always fair.\" —Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review \"A superb book on the horrors afflicting wartime Greece. . . . [Mazower] has done vast archival research and emerged with a gripping, readable and human account, setting every moment of a tragic period in appropriate context.\" —Fritz Stern, Foreign Affairs \"[A] sensitive, illuminating and richly textured account of painful, complex experience.\" —Richard Overy, Observer Mark Mazower is professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of Dark Continent.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481617146229,"sku":"9780300089233","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780300089233.jpg?v=1786089897"},{"product_id":"the-house-in-the-film","title":"The House in the Film","description":"‘History is a matter of clues and divination — and a kind of luck that is not exactly luck at all.’On a warm autumn evening in Paris, the author attends the screening of a 1970s cult film, at the centre of which is a house. 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