Title: Very Good OVERVIEW
Product review: This is truly a very useful piece of reference material for anybody doing any kind of studies in European history. True, it doesn't cover everything, but it provides a very useful structure in which to place further information. Also, the author does have a consistant theme running throughout this book that I feel obliged to point to as nobody has thus far. Davies constantly is looking for signs of the development of the idea of a unified "Europe." Davies provides a very insightful look at the way in which the people of Europe saw themselves throughout history. Now, while I must admit that it covers more of the similarities than the differences among the ways in which people view themselves, (really the book's one weakness considering what it set out to do) Davies attempt to reconstruct a picture of daily life through this idea of "Europe" is interesting.
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