Reviews of Books

Europe: A History


From the ice age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Norman Davies here tells the entire history of Europe in one single volume. 

Reviews - Europe: A History

Traveling through Europe's centuries

Friday 17 January 1997 Los Angeles Times, Anthony Day

A professor of Slavonic studies at the University of London, Davies tries to pay attention to the Eastern parts of Europe he says other historians have neglected.

Eastward shift

Sunday 02 March 1997 BusinessWeek, Joseph Mandel

Davies contributes to the debate about Europe's identity.

Against the old clichés

Thursday 01 May 1997 The New Criterion, Anne Applebaum

With family ties and professional interests on Europe’s peripheries, [Davies] has long been privately and publicly critical of the way “European” history has come to mean the history of England, France, Germany, and very occasionally Italy and Spain.

Doing the Continental

Thursday 15 May 1997 The New York Review of Books, R.J.W. Evans

Few books command a major field for sixty years.