The Best General Europe History Guidebook I've Ever Read
I'm a novice reader on history.
Being a novice reader on history in my age is a nice thing. You've grown enough to understand what history truely means to an adult. You've been educated and trained enough to be open for more materials in a broader sense without some ideological disturbance you may face when in school. You've earned enough and accumulated enough to search for and acquire more valueable books to comprehend.
I started reading anything attracted me from 2012: history of China, Russia, Germany, Japan, Israel and have so far consumed several books. Most books are on special, tailored topics which are wonderfully written. Orlando Figes has become my favourite historian.
In the meantime I'm searching for a gerneral history book on Europe, since when I was reading about European countries, lack of backgournd knowledge always bothered me. In awe I found how little I knew about Europe though I've studied things out when I was in high school.
In fact I found it hard to understand European culture and history in cohesion. The complicated history factors about ancient Greece and Rome, the long mix of abracadabra races fighting to gestate the Europe, the spreading and changing in languages, the countless federal revolutions...drives me crazy and discourage me every minute I read.
Until I found this book!
Being a novice means I don't care much about indepth details. I want main plots, critical moments, leading factors with a deliberate, comprehensible analysis and interesting highlights - that's what the book feeds me with. On the other hand It's general but not so gerneral to be left as a sketch or a nutshell. I don't want a nutshell and quick digest. I want something profound - that's what the book satisfies me with.
I wonder if some day I would become a history teacher - If I could and would, I'd like to be one like John Merriman, or Norman Davies. Interesting. Too interesting to leave. So intersting the collective human insanity and rationale!
Being a novice reader on history in my age is a nice thing. You've grown enough to understand what history truely means to an adult. You've been educated and trained enough to be open for more materials in a broader sense without some ideological disturbance you may face when in school. You've earned enough and accumulated enough to search for and acquire more valueable books to comprehend.
I started reading anything attracted me from 2012: history of China, Russia, Germany, Japan, Israel and have so far consumed several books. Most books are on special, tailored topics which are wonderfully written. Orlando Figes has become my favourite historian.
In the meantime I'm searching for a gerneral history book on Europe, since when I was reading about European countries, lack of backgournd knowledge always bothered me. In awe I found how little I knew about Europe though I've studied things out when I was in high school.
In fact I found it hard to understand European culture and history in cohesion. The complicated history factors about ancient Greece and Rome, the long mix of abracadabra races fighting to gestate the Europe, the spreading and changing in languages, the countless federal revolutions...drives me crazy and discourage me every minute I read.
Until I found this book!
Being a novice means I don't care much about indepth details. I want main plots, critical moments, leading factors with a deliberate, comprehensible analysis and interesting highlights - that's what the book feeds me with. On the other hand It's general but not so gerneral to be left as a sketch or a nutshell. I don't want a nutshell and quick digest. I want something profound - that's what the book satisfies me with.
I wonder if some day I would become a history teacher - If I could and would, I'd like to be one like John Merriman, or Norman Davies. Interesting. Too interesting to leave. So intersting the collective human insanity and rationale!
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