Mark Mazower

Mark A. Mazower (* 1958 in London ) is a British historian and publicist .

life and work

Mazower's grandfather Max Mazower was a bookseller and Bundist in Tsarist Russia who fled to England in 1909. Mazower studied Classical Studies and Philosophy at Oxford and International Relations at Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore ( USA ). In 1981 he received his bachelor's degree from Oxford and 1983 his master's degree in Baltimore. In 1988 he received his PhD from Oxford. He then taught at Birkbeck, the University of London , the University of Sussex and Princeton University . He is currently a professor at Columbia University , New York City .

Mazower's areas of expertise are the history of Greece in modern times , the history of the Balkan states as well as the history of Nazi rule in Europe and the ideologies of the 20th century. His works have been translated into several languages. He gained fame primarily through his book The Dark Continent (German 2000), which combines the history of politics and the history of ideas in an essayistic way.

In addition to his academic and journalistic activities, Mazower also works as a journalist, in particular for the Financial Times newspaper . In 2011 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Publications

As an author

• Greece and the inter-war economic crisis , Oxford 1991
• Inside Hitler's Greece. The Experience of Occupation 1941-44 , New Haven 1993
  • Greece under Hitler: Life during the German Occupation 1941–1944. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-002507-4 .
• The dark continent. Europe's twentieth Century , London 1998
  • The dark continent. Europe in the 20th Century , Berlin 2000
• The Balkans , London 2000
  • The Balkans , Berlin ²2003
• Salonica. City of Ghosts. Christians Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 , London 2004.
• Hitler's Empire. Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe , London 2008.
  • Hitler's empire. Europe under the rule of National Socialism . Translated from Martin Richter. Beck , 2009. ISBN 3-406-59271-6
• Networks of Power in modern Greece , London 2008
• No Enchanted Palace. The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations , Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford 2009 ISBN 978-1-4008-3166-1
• Governing the World: The History of an Idea . Penguin, 2012. ISBN 978-1-59420-349-7
  • Ruling the world: an idea and its story from 1815 to today . Beck, Munich 2013

As editor

• The Policing of Politics in the Twentieth Century. Historical Perspectives , Providence / Rhode Island 1997.
• After the war was over. Reconstructing the State, Family and the Law in Greece, 1943-1960 , Princeton 2000.
• Ideologies and national identities. The Case of twentieth-century Southeastern Europe , Budapest 2004
• What you did not tell: a Russian past and the journey home . London: Allen Lane, 2017

Web links

• Literature by and about Mark Mazower in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Mark Mazower in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Mark Mazower at perlentaucher.de
• Columbia University Human Resources Page
• Personal website

Footnotes

1. ↑ Mark Mazower: From dawn to dusk - European democracy enters dangerous times , in: FT, January 31, 2014, p. 7