Title: Not worth the paper its printed on
Product review: I purchased this looking for a basic overview of Italian reunification that accounted for recent scholarship. What I got was a string of primary documents connected by useless one to five page historical introductions. I have no qualms about presenting primary evidence, but to simply present it without any analysis or historical commentary is crimminal. I can't imagine what segment of the book market would find this useful. High schoolers need basic historical explanation alongside primary documents. College students need analytic meat. And experts would have no use for such a simple collection of primary material. My only consolation is that I found this used -the new price is scandalous. I am thoroughly disappointed with this publication, not to mention with palgrave, who have done the book world a disservice.
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