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Europe: 1815-1914 (Europe)
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780030891946
Edition: 3 Fac
ISBN: 0030891949
Label: Harcourt
Manufacturer: Harcourt
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 502
Publication Date: 1972-06
Publisher: Harcourt
Studio: Harcourt
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Rating:  - History As Cecil Rhodes Would Have Written It
Historians, like other people have perspectives. And when reading and evaluating the work of any historian, it is critical to understand the historian's perspective. With Gordon Alexander Craig, we may have the advantage of his informing us of his perspective within the corpus of this very text.
Craig was a Rhodes scholar. On page 475 of "Europe 1815-1914", Craig is kind enough to share that the idea Rhodes had in setting up this scholarship was to promote the commonality of interests ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent followup to Durant
Readers who enjoyed Will Durant's excellent Story of Civilization series will enjoy Craig. Durant finishes with Napoleon, so he and Craig overlap very slightly, but that's not really a problem. Craig is thorough -- and thoroughly readable.
This history is limited to Europe; events elsewhere in the world are only discussed to the extent that they impact Europe. Since the 19th Century was Europe's great century, though, during which the continent essentially dominated the world, this turns out ... Read More
Rating:  - Europe : 1815-1914
Gordan Craig does an excellent job of breaking down of the European picture from the fall of Napoleon to the outbreak of World War I. What impresses me the most is his breakdown of the 1848 Revolutions and the the rivalry between Prussia and Austria for domination of the German States. I know that there is much more in this book, and its good, but the rivalry between the "Big Germans" and "Little Germans" is broken down, in my opinion, awesomely by Craig. ANYONE who is a student/teacher/buff ... Read More
Rating: - Europe : 1815-1914
Gordan Craig does an excellent job of breaking down of the European picture from the fall of Napoleon to the outbreak of World War I. What impresses me the most is his breakdown of the 1848 Revolutions and the the rivalry between Prussia and Austria for domination of the German States. I know that there is much more in this book, and its good, but the rivalry between the "Big Germans" and "Little Germans" is broken down, in my opinion, awesomely by Craig. ANYONE who is a student/teacher/buff ... Read More
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