Title: Potential, no actualization.
Review: Ostrowski has the potential to write great, readable history. Unfortunately that's all this book shows. This book uses too many references to far to little good. Some chapters (about 20 pages each) have in excess of one hundred references; often there are pages where there are more footnotes than general text. This just exacerbates his problem with spending several pages talking about what other historians say, and then one or two saying his piece. On the plus side his prose if very clear and to the point when he finally wanders into one.
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