Mark Mazower is Ira D.Wallach Professor of World Order Studies and Professor of History Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of Hitler's Greece- The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44, Dark Continent- Europe's Twentieth Century, The Balkans- A Short History (which won the Wolfson Prize for History), Salonica- City of Ghosts (which won both the Duff Cooper Prize and the Runciman Award) and Hitler's Empire- Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe. He has also taught at Birkbeck College, University of London, Sussex University and Princeton. He lives in New York.
Mazower has strengthened his claim to be the preeminent historian
of a generation ... On rare occasions, a work of history emerges
that not only fundamentally refashions our understanding of the
past, it enables us to reassess the present and, with luck,
influence our future. I advise everyone who is concerned about our
precarious situation to learn from and absorb Mazower's remarkable
achievement
*Misha Glenny*
A significant contribution to historical scholarship, with the
chapters on the 19th century's remarkable swirl of politics, ideas
and organisations being particularly original and valuable ...
Simply for giving us this lucid account, Mazower deserves our
gratitude. But Governing the World is also an intriguing read
because of the strong argument he places within it ... This new
work certainly gave this reviewer an awful lot to think about - to
an author, there may be no greater praise than that
*Financial Times*
Governing Europe, and then the whole world ... this idea has found
its perfect chronicler in Mark Mazower, whose perceptions are
cosmopolitan, humane, learned, and properly skeptical. What is
more, his history is written in clear, elegant prose. Essential
reading not just for historians, but anyone interested in the
troubled world we live in
*Ian Buruma*
A prodigious work: a master historian's reconstruction of how
individuals and nations since 1815 have sought to promote national
interests in ever more complicated international settings. A
dramatic, novel account of ideas and institutions in collision with
hard realities. Indispensable also for its full and subtle account
of American policies since 1917, always with a fine touch for the
hitherto neglected person or little noticed moment that illuminates
historic processes. Profound, relevant, and morally instructive -
and a pleasure to read
*Fritz Stern*
This is a book that needed to be written ... [Governing the World]
is truly illuminating ... The story is a fascinating one, and
Mazower tells it with authority and verve
*Literary Review*
The idea of global government has entranced the world for
centuries. Mark Mazower's brilliant book shows how much effort has
gone into this idea - and how futile it has mostly been in an era
of individualism and growing divisiveness
*Alan Brinkley*
Mazower is a man of immense erudition, a real scholar ... [A]
remarkable book ... Reading him is like being lectured by the best
left-wing professor you'll ever have. Or like reading the best
foreign affairs writer the Guardian or the Nation has to offer ...
You can learn a lot from him
*Standpoint*
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