{"product_id":"dark-continent-isbn-9780679757047","title":"Dark Continent","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[A] splendid book.\" \u003ci\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDark Continent \u003c\/i\u003eprovides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political solutions that battled and sometimes triumphed in an effort to determine the course the continent would take.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Mazower strips away myths that have comforted us since World War II, revealing Europe as an entity constantly engaged in a bloody project of self-invention.  Here is a history not of inevitable victories and forward marches, but of narrow squeaks and unexpected twists, where townships boast a bronze of Mussolini on horseback one moment, only to melt it down and recast it as a pair of noble partisans the next.\"This splendid book makes a convincing case for a different version of 20th century European history.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A useful, important book that reminds us, at the right time, how hard [European unity] has been, and how much care must be taken to avoid the terrible old temptations.\" —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003eMARK MAZOWER is Reader in History at the University of Sussex. He is the author of the prizewinning \u003ci\u003eInside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44.\u003c\/i\u003e He writes and broadcasts regularly on current developments in the Balkans.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301993304293,"sku":"NP9780679757047","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679757047.jpg?v=1767724497","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/dark-continent-isbn-9780679757047","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}