Mark Mazower
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Mark A. Mazower (born 1958) is a notable British historian of Greece, the Balkans, and 20th century Europe in general. He currently is professor of history at Columbia University in New York City.
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[edit] Career
Mazower earned his BA 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 comments on international affairs for various newpapers, including the Financial Times.
[edit] Fields of interest
He is considered to be one of the world's leading specialists in Balkan history; indeed he has written extensively on the region, often focusing on 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 and the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. 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.
In addition, Mazower is concerned with 20th century European history. His book Dark Continent: Europe's 20th century was a major contribution to the modern historiography of the region, arguing that the triumph of democracy in Europe was never inevitable, but was in fact the result of pure chance.
Mazower recently completed a book entitled Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe comparing Nazi occupation policy in different European countries. The book was published by Allen Lane in June 2008.
[edit] Publications
Mazower's publications include:
- 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)
