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Governing the World
  • Published: 24 July 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141011936
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $29.99

Governing the World

The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present

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27 Aug 2013
EBook
21 Nov 2012
Paperback
24 July 2013
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A magisterial history of international government, from the award-winning author of Dark Continent and Hitler's Empire

In 1815 the shocked and exhausted victors of the decades of fighting that had engulfed Europe for a generation agreed to a new system for keeping the peace. Instead of independent states changing sides, doing deals and betraying one another, a new, collegial 'Concert of Europe' would ensure that the brutal chaos of the Napoleonic Wars never happened again.

Mark Mazower's remarkable new book recreates two centuries of international government - the struggle to spread values and build institutions to bring order to an anarchic and dangerous state system.
  • Published: 24 July 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141011936
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Mark Mazower

Mark Mazower is Ira D. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University, where he directs the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. His previous books include Inside Hitler's Greece, Dark Continent, The Balkans and Salonica, City of Ghosts. His most recent book, The Greek Revolution, won the Duff Cooper Prize.
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Also by Mark Mazower

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The Greek Revolution
What You Did Not Tell
Hitler's Empire
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