Mark Mazower

Mark A. Mazower (born 1958, London) is a British historian. His expertise is Greece, the Balkans and, more generally, 20th century Europe. He is currently a professor of history at Columbia University in New York City.

Career

Mazower earned his BA in Classics and Philosophy from Oxford in 1981 and his doctorate from the same university in 1988. He also holds an MA in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins University (1983). Prior to his arrival at Columbia Mazower taught at Birkbeck, University of London, and at the University of Sussex. He has also taught at Princeton University.

Mazower also writes for various newspapers since 2002 including articles and comments on international affairs and book reports for the Financial Times and for The Independent.^[1][2]

He has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the European Association of History Educators (EUROCLIO).

Fields of interest

He has written extensively on Balkan history, and Greek history. His book The Balkans: A Short History won the Wolfson History Prize and Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941–44, won both the Longman History Today Award for Book of the Year. Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 was the Runciman Prize and Duff Cooper Prize winner and was shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize.^[3]

In addition, Mazower is more broadly concerned with 20th century European history. His book Dark Continent: Europe's 20th century argued that the triumph of democracy in Europe was not inevitable but rather the result of chance and political agency on the part of citizens, subjects and leaders.

Mazower recently completed a book entitled Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe comparing Nazi occupation policy in different European countries.

His most recent book "No Enchanted Palace" was published in 2009. It narrates the origins of the United Nations and its strict ties to colonialism and its predecessor organization, the League of Nations.

References

1. ^ "Prejudice in Europe is more than skin deep". [Financial Times]. 2008-11-17. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6a38cf9e-b447-11dd-8e35-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1. 
2. ^ "List of links to articles by Mazower". [Columbia Uni. - Mark Mazower (with links to articles)]. 2009-02. http://www.columbia.edu/~mm2669/m_journalism.html. 
3. ^ "Shortlisted writers". [English PEN]. 2005. http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/hesselltiltman/. 

Publications

Mazower's publications include:

• 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)
• Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (Allen Lane, 2008)
• Networks of Power in Modern Greece, (as editor, C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2008)
• Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 (HarperCollins, 2004)
• Ideologies and National Identities: The Case of Twentieth-Century South-Eastern Europe (as co-editor, Central European University Press, 2003)
• After the War was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation and State in Greece, 1943-1960 (as an editor, Princeton UP, 2000)
• The Balkans: A Short History (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000), reprinted as The Balkans: From the End of Byzantium to the Present Day (Phoenix, 2002)
• Dark Continent: Europe's 20th Century (Knopf, 1998)
• The Policing of Politics in the Twentieth Century: Historical Perspectives (as editor, Berghahn, 1997)
• Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44 (Yale UP, 1993)
• Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis, Clarendon Press, 1991 (first published 1969), ISBN 0198202059, also translated in Greek by MIET (2002).

External links

• Mazower's page at the Columbia University website
• Ethnicity and War in the Balkans- a short article by Mazower
• Mazower on the Armenian genocide controversy
• Mazower's official webpage
• Reviews of Mazower books in Foreign Affairs
• Jason R. Koepke on a lecture by Mazower
• Review of Inside Hitler's Greece on "New Books in History"
• Interview at The Guardian
• Research
• 'A League Beneath', a review of No Enchanted Place in the Oxonian Review

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