Mark Mazower
Articles by Mark Mazower
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Europe
Greeks vs Germans
- 06 December 2011
- 14 comments
As austerity bites in the Eurozone, the German press is portraying Greece as profligate – while the Greeks are terrified that the country which occupied them in the 1940s is again threatening their autonomy.
Books
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
- 21 November 2005
Postwar: a history of Europe since 1945 Tony Judt William Heinemann, 878pp, £25 ISBN 0434007498
World Affairs
A green land
- 05 April 2004
I Saw Ramallah Mourid Barghouti, translated by Ahdaf Soueif Bloomsbury, 184pp, £12.99 ISBN 0747569274
Culture
The promised land
- 08 December 2003
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
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - The strange triumph of human rights
- 04 February 2002
Mark Mazower finds that the splendid principles enshrined in such documents as the UN Charter are not quite what they seem
Books
Arabs: the last Zionists
- 29 January 2001
Sacred Landscape: the buried history of the Holy Land since 1948 Meron Benvenisti University of California Press, 382pp, £22 ISBN 0520211545
Books
The tyranny of words
- 13 November 2000
The Language of the Third Reich LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii Victor Klemperer The Athlone Press, 304pp, £45 ISBN 0485115263
Books
Back in print
- 15 May 2000
The Balkans Since 1453 L S Stavrianos C Hurst, 970pp, £19.50 ISBN 1850655510
OLD Media
Pity the Germans
- 20 December 1999
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
Books
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
- 11 October 1999
Ataturk Andrew Mango John Murray, 666pp, £30 ISBN 0719556120
