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Norman davies is ambitious to write a comprehensive european history from ancient time to 20th century in one book. Norman davies provides a key to understanding the modern polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nations history. The rise and fall of states and nations by norman davies viking, 830 pp. So begins daviess magisterial europe, a master work of history that stretches from the ice age to the atomic age, as it tells the story of europe, east and west, from prehistory to the present day. It only takes a few swift sentences early on in his monumental europe. Author norman davies tries to counteract the bias of eurocentrism and. A history is a conventional narrative, proceeding forward in time at a gradually decelerating pace. In the middle part, davies tries to avoid what he calls the bias of western civilization neglect of eastern europe, in the 20th century part he fights the allied scheme of history. As davies notes in the preface, the book contains little that is original. A history1 for norman davies to dispense with that sort of history. From the ice age to the cold war and beyond, from reykjavik to riga, from archimedes to einstein, alexander to yeltsin, here between the covers of a single volume norman davies tells the story of europe, east and west, from prehistory to the present day. Click to see full description in the beginning, writes norman davies, there was no europe. From the ice age to the cold war, from reykjavik to the volga, from minos to margaret thatcher, norman davies here tells the entire story of europe in a singl.
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