Norman Davies C. M. G., F. B. A. is Professor Emeritus of the University of London, a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and the author of several books on Polish and European history, including God's Playground, White Eagle, Red Star, The Isles, Europe, and Microcosm.
With Europe: A History, University of London professor Norman Davies has undertaken the near impossible: a synthetic one-volume overview of Europe from prehistory through the present. Remarkably, he has succeeded. Europe: A History is a conventional narrative, proceeding forward in time at a gradually decelerating pace. (The beginning covers millions of years of prehistory, while the final chapter discusses the 46 years between World War II and the book's publication.) But Davies's writing--vigorous, incisive, and confidently knowledgeable--carries the reader along, while the steady sweep of the main narrative is broken up by "capsules," boxed passages examining particular places, customs, or issues that cut across chronological lines. Davies, who has written two books on Polish history, also gives the eastern part of Europe its due coverage, unlike many of his predecessors, and manages to include commoners and the persecuted or ignored in his story along with the mighty and the royal. Europe: A History won't please everybody, but it's a highly intelligent, superbly readable overview that is certain to become a standard text. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The pre-eminent scholar of Polish history, Davies (God's Playground and Heart of Europe) expands his focus to all of Europe. While the book is bulky, its size is hardly adequate to a complete history of the continent from pre-history to the dismantling of the Soviet Union. In addition, as one might expect, Davies has taken great pains to treat countries other than England, France and Germany as legitimate parts of Europe?not just as the thresholds over which barbarians crossed. ("For some reason it has been the fashion among some historians to minimize the impact of the Magyars," Davies writes when discussing what would become central Europe. "All this means is that the Magyars did not reach Cambridge.") The book works because his subject is not the constituent countries but the continent as a whole. Thus, while Elizabeth I gets one brief mention in passing, Aristide Briand, the French foreign minister who tried to effect a Franco-German reconciliation until the Nazis won power, gets several paragraphs. Aside from defining what Europe is and giving all countries their due, Davies also tries to show the joys of an inclusive reading of historical subjects (he disparages excessive specialization and writes admiringly of the Annales school). A master of broad-brushstroke synthesis, Davies navigates through the larger historical currents with the detail necessary to a well-written engaging narrative.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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這部書閱讀起來非常費力,絕對是挑戰你的閱讀神經。 本來作者寫的時候就經常跳來跳去,更可惡的是中間會穿插很多知識點,而這些知識點其實和當前的內容沒有多大的關聯性。 實在是鬱悶,先放棄。 以後要是再想去挑戰的話,再說瞭。
評分這書的作者是英國人,又在波蘭呆過,對俄羅斯好像有種天然的敵意,字裏行間,從中世紀一直到1991年蘇聯解體無不是極盡貶抑之詞。諾夫哥羅德比莫斯科好、列寜在他筆下簡直和小鬍子差不多,可能就比大斯好點。基本上如果一個沒有接觸過任何東西的人看瞭這本書,第一印象不是教皇...
評分韆頭萬緒的歐洲史很是難寫,寫本歐洲演義或許會容易一些。該書的體例很獨特,摘要作得很漂亮,讓人很想拿把剪刀把它們一一裁下來粘在另外一個小本本上。
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2 months to struggle through the first half of it with numerous side readings, another 1 month to finish off with great satisfaction..
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評分Davies is a cool man. It's pity that I couldn't make the trip to visit him as other classmates did. This is one of the literatures we used in European History course, quite helpful.
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評分作者研究斯拉夫人齣生,是部真正意義上的歐洲史;但火候還是差瞭點。
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