New Statesman - <![CDATA[Mark Mazower]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/mark_mazower en <![CDATA[Rebirth of a continent. Given Europe's troubled history, its postwar achievements have been remarkable. But it now faces a new set of challenges, and its obsession with the past is not helping. By Mark Mazower]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200511210038 http://www.newstatesman.com/200511210038 Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:00:00 GMT Mark Mazower Postwar: a history of Europe since 1945 Tony Judt William Heinemann, 878pp, £25 ISBN 0434007498

]]> <![CDATA[A green land]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200404050041 http://www.newstatesman.com/200404050041 Mon, 05 Apr 2004 12:00:00 GMT Mark Mazower I Saw Ramallah Mourid Barghouti, translated by Ahdaf Soueif Bloomsbury, 184pp, £12.99 ISBN 0747569274

]]> <![CDATA[The promised land]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200312080031 http://www.newstatesman.com/200312080031 Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:00:00 GMT Mark Mazower Israeli town planners hoped to entice people to "instant cities" in the desert hills, but instead created militarised outposts. Mark Mazower examines the role of architecture in the Middle East conflict

]]> <![CDATA[The New Statesman Essay - The strange triumph of human rights]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200202040017 http://www.newstatesman.com/200202040017 Mon, 04 Feb 2002 12:00:00 GMT Mark Mazower Mark Mazower finds that the splendid principles enshrined in such documents as the UN Charter are not quite what they seem

]]> <![CDATA[Arabs: the last Zionists]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200101290048 http://www.newstatesman.com/200101290048 Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:00:00 GMT Mark Mazower Sacred Landscape: the buried history of the Holy Land since 1948 Meron Benvenisti University of California Press, 382pp, £22 ISBN 0520211545

]]> <![CDATA[The tyranny of words]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200011130043 http://www.newstatesman.com/200011130043 Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:00:00 GMT Mark Mazower The Language of the Third Reich LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii Victor Klemperer The Athlone Press, 304pp, £45 ISBN 0485115263

]]> <![CDATA[Back in print]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200005150053 http://www.newstatesman.com/200005150053 Mon, 15 May 2000 12:00:00 GMT Mark Mazower The Balkans Since 1453 L S Stavrianos C Hurst, 970pp, £19.50 ISBN 1850655510

]]> <![CDATA[Pity the Germans]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199912200077 http://www.newstatesman.com/199912200077 Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:00:00 GMT Mark Mazower Beyond the Wall: The Lost World of East Germany S Marsden and D McLaren Little, Brown, 128pp, £19.99 ISBN 0316645389 The German Century M Sturmer Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 288pp, £30

]]> <![CDATA[From fez to fedora. He transformed a caliphate into a modern state but he still kept a black eunuch to guard his women. Mark Mazower on a new study of the father of modern Turkey]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199910110050 http://www.newstatesman.com/199910110050 Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:00:00 GMT Mark Mazower Ataturk Andrew Mango John Murray, 666pp, £30 ISBN 0719556120

]]> <![CDATA[Distant voices, other lives. Shtetl life was engulfed in the Nazi storm. So is there no shared history of Jews and Poles beyond anti-Semitism and murder?]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199905310044 http://www.newstatesman.com/199905310044 Mon, 31 May 1999 12:00:00 GMT Mark Mazower Once There Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok Yaffa Eliach Little, Brown, 960pp, £30

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