Mark Mazower

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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

A green land

  • 05 April 2004

I Saw Ramallah
Mourid Barghouti, translated by Ahdaf Soueif Bloomsbury, 184pp, £12.99
ISBN 0747569274

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

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

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

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

Back in print

  • 15 May 2000

The Balkans Since 1453
L S Stavrianos C Hurst, 970pp, £19.50
ISBN 1850655510

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

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

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?

  • 31 May 1999

Once There Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
Yaffa Eliach Little, Brown, 960pp, £30

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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