Europe
From Publishers Weekly
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 o...
From Publishers Weekly
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.
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諾曼·戴維斯1939年生于英格蘭。曾獲波蘭克拉科夫大學(xué)博士學(xué)位，原倫敦大學(xué)東歐斯拉夫?qū)W院教授，在倫敦大學(xué)執(zhí)教多年，主要研究方向?yàn)橹袣W與東歐史?，F(xiàn)任午津大學(xué)沃爾夫森學(xué)院研究員、教授。
主要著作：
《起義在1944年：華沙之戰(zhàn)》(Rising，44：The Battle for Warsaw)，被《紐約時(shí)報(bào)》評(píng)為2004年度100本最暢銷(xiāo)書(shū)之一。
《上帝的操場(chǎng)：波蘭史》(God's Playgrotmd：A History of Poland)
《歐洲的心臟：與波蘭當(dāng)代有關(guān)的歷史》(Heart of Europe：The Past in Poland's Present)
《不列顛群島：一部歷史》(7hc Isles：A History)
《微觀世界：一個(gè)中歐城市的肖像》(Microcosm: ...
諾曼·戴維斯1939年生于英格蘭。曾獲波蘭克拉科夫大學(xué)博士學(xué)位，原倫敦大學(xué)東歐斯拉夫?qū)W院教授，在倫敦大學(xué)執(zhí)教多年，主要研究方向?yàn)橹袣W與東歐史。現(xiàn)任午津大學(xué)沃爾夫森學(xué)院研究員、教授。
主要著作：
《起義在1944年：華沙之戰(zhàn)》(Rising，44：The Battle for Warsaw)，被《紐約時(shí)報(bào)》評(píng)為2004年度100本最暢銷(xiāo)書(shū)之一。
《上帝的操場(chǎng)：波蘭史》(God's Playgrotmd：A History of Poland)
《歐洲的心臟：與波蘭當(dāng)代有關(guān)的歷史》(Heart of Europe：The Past in Poland's Present)
《不列顛群島：一部歷史》(7hc Isles：A History)
《微觀世界：一個(gè)中歐城市的肖像》(Microcosm: Portrait of a Central Euronean City)