Mark Mazower is the author of Inside Hitler's Greece, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century, The Balkans, which won the Wolfson Prize for History, and Salonika: City of Ghosts, which won both the Runciman Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. He has taught at the University of Sussex, Princeton University and Birkbeck College, University of London. He is now Professor of History at Columbia University.
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*
Mazower has strengthened his claim to be the preeminent historian
of a generation. Combining breathtaking originality with meticulous
and gloriously eclectic research, he offers the most convincing
explanation yet articulated for the exaggerated, even hysterical,
expectations of the 1990s and the subsequent collapse of optimism
after the Millennium now translated into a fear that grips large
parts of the Western world. 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*
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*
Bursting with ideas about present and future as well as past
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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*
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*
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*
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*
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