PositiveIrish Times (IRE)Clear, comprehensive, and nuanced ... A welcome attempt to offer some clarity ... Mazower provides a fast-paced and comprehensive summary of developments across Europe until 1914 ... Mazower’s final chapters focus on debates in Israel and the United States. The narrative here is more polemical and focused on cultural and identity politics, while also perhaps less relevant to debates elsewhere ... Books like this can hopefully contribute to the honest discussions that are desperately needed in a new age of racism, war and genocide.
