Rate this book. Norman Davies. It is the most ambitious history of the continent ever undertaken. More details. Norman Davies 31 books followers. Throughout his career, Davies has lectured in many countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, Poland, and in most of the rest of Europe as well. The work which established Davies' reputation in the English-speaking world was God's Playground , a comprehensive overview of Polish history.
In Poland, the book was published officially only after the fall of communism. It is not available in English. In , Davies published Heart of Europe, a briefer history of Poland.
Interestingly, the chapters are arranged in reverse chronological order. Each book is a narrative interlarded with numerous sidepanel discussions of microtopics. Davies also writes essays and articles for the mass media.
In Poland, his articles appeared in the liberal Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny. Davies' book Rising ' The Battle for Warsaw describes the Warsaw Uprising. They accuse him of minimizing historic antisemitism, and of promoting a view that accounts of the Holocaust in international historiography largely overlook the suffering of non-Jewish Poles.
Davies himself argues that "Holocaust scholars need have no fears that rational comparisons might threaten that uniqueness. Quite the opposite. Davies sued the university for breach of contract and defamation of character, but in the court ruled that it did not have jurisdiction in an academic matter. Davies received an honorary DLitt degree from his alma mater the University of Sussex. Davies is also an honorary. Search review text. Betty Ho. I read this on a Kindle which in terms of sheer logistics is the best way to read a page book.
A "book" book of this size is just too uncomfortable to read in any other way. The Kindle came into its own especially with its notes and highlights features. Davies did this by not writing a conventional history. By conventional I mean not by chronology alone. He certainly starts at the start with neolithic peoples but he also starts by questioning what is Europe?
He does a fair bit of historiography throughout questioning assumptions and reviewing what the profession thinks about certain issues and controversies. For instance he looks at the basis of Classical Greek civilisation, reviewing the "Black Athena" thesis and dismissing it.
What Davies does is write stories, some very opinionated. He writes stories about important aspects of European history. For instance when writing about the Roman class system he mentions slavery and goes off on a tangent about the history of slavery in Europe and then he comes back to Rome. There is the problem of what sort of reader would like this book. If you're a history buff why reread all the stuff you have read before and if you aren't a history buff why pick up a nearly page history book in the first place.
The simple answer is gaps and connections. Everyone has a gap in their knowledge and Davies sees connections where most don't. Davies is an Eastern European specialist so he brings that insight into the book. He sees the interconnections between Western and Eastern Europe and how they formed. He gives space and credit to Byzantium and Orthodox Christianity. I knew nothing of Byzantium until I was about Before this book I knew nothing of the history of Poland. Does the average person know why Poland had a large Jewish population?
Well the reason is that when Europe was ripping itself to pieces over religion in the 16th and 17th Poland had a conscious policy of religious freedom and toleration so the Jews of Europe came and settled in a land that did not persecute them. It was only in the 19th Century with Poland split and the pressure of Czarist Orthodoxy that the idea of a real Pole being a Catholic came into play. I would highly recommend this book both for the specialist and the lay reader. I can see one potential untapped market with the rise of China and India.
It is quirky in style and opinionated but it is well written. Chris Via. The big book that got me flagged by TSA. And that bag got promptly flagged and taken aside at airport security.
After several questions about what might be in the bag, my anxiety growing sharper, the agent pulled out the ample brick. Jan Hidders. A very big read indeed, but worth every minute you spend on it. The author makes a big point of treating the history of the whole of Europe, not just the Western part, and I agree with the author that such a treatment has been long overdue. The book is great as an overview work but can also be used to fill in some of the gaps in your historical knowledge, especially about Eastern Europe, since it also goes into some detail.
However, it is not an introductory work and often assumes that you already know a thing or two. Resources digitised to compliment the Wellcome Collection Sexology exhibit, However, the initial uncertainties of this association also manifested themselves in the difficulties of organizing the bibliographic material.
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