Title: interesting but treading old ground.
Product review: Certainly the theme of Ruggiero's work is convincing. However this book reveals nothing new, and saftely treads through the old predujuices seeking to lay entire blame on the shoulders of Chamberlain. The work is convincing in this aim, only if you fail to take a step back from the argument. As with all historical works it is important to have a look in the authors other hand, the one behind his back. It is here that the authors own preconceptions fanish and the truth is clearer. Opinions on History cannot be wholly lifted from one source, and it is important to examine historians who feel different to Ruggiero if a whole understanding is to be gleemed on the topic. Roggerio work is very powerful, but with all my reading around this subject there is nothing in it that I have not heard before, ultimately it is nothing but a refined "guilty men".
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