TY - JOUR
AU1 - Bartlett, Robert
AB -  Book Reviews social history will be disappointed. The other difficulty faced by all authors writing about this region is organization. How do you construct an integrated history from such diverse strands? Soucek doesn't make much effort to find a deep unity to the region, which may well be the best solution. Sometimes, though, this makes for a certain lack of coherence in his account, as when we follow the fate of Central Asia up to 1991, and then backtrack suddenly to pick up the histories of Sinkiang and Outer Mongolia from the seventh and eighteenth centuries. It is also a shame that there are very few footnotes and little guide to the literature on particular topics. More footnotes would have helped readers orientate themselves among different historiographical traditions, while chapter bibliographies would have helped readers move beyond Soucek's account and find more detail on subjects that particularly interest them. A fuller bibliography would also have been helpful. But these are really carping criticisms. We needed a survey history of the region and Soucek has supplied it. His book is eminently readable, often fascinating, and full of quirky but thought-provoking angles on the region's history (such as the insistence 
TI - The First European Revolution, c. 970-1215 (review)
JF - Journal of World History
DA - 2002-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-hawai-i-press/the-first-european-revolution-c-970-1215-review-tQy0d21UgI
SP - 495
EP - 497
VL - 13
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -