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A review by katieohara
Eastern Europe!: Everything You Need to Know About the History (and More) of a Region that Shaped Our World and Still Does by Tomek E. Jankowski
informative
slow-paced
2.75
I first bought this book in 2017 when I was missing my college medieval class. In the introductory chapter and it wasn’t hooked so I put it down. I only picked it up again in 2023 as part of a challenge to read books that I already owned. It was a challenge through the book.
One of my major issues with the book that author is the type of historian that only values military and political history. Most of the sub chapters about the kingdoms and countries are exclusively who is in charge, and who went to war. This is more of a book about how borders have changed in the past two thousand years. I wish that the cultural, religious, and even the economic history was better integrated in the text. It felt out of place when it was left to the useless trivia section.
I almost feel like this book needed to be two volumes. The ancient and medieval is really gloss over in favor for the modern history. The first volume could be ancient/medieval and the second could be modern history 1700-now.
There were a lot of proofreading issues that made me feel like the editor did not put enough care into the book. There were spelling errors, incorrect dates, and footnotes not in superscript. Also casual references to Wikipedia. In some ways it solidifies my feelings that this book is kind of a series of bound and printed Wikipedia articles.
One of my major issues with the book that author is the type of historian that only values military and political history. Most of the sub chapters about the kingdoms and countries are exclusively who is in charge, and who went to war. This is more of a book about how borders have changed in the past two thousand years. I wish that the cultural, religious, and even the economic history was better integrated in the text. It felt out of place when it was left to the useless trivia section.
I almost feel like this book needed to be two volumes. The ancient and medieval is really gloss over in favor for the modern history. The first volume could be ancient/medieval and the second could be modern history 1700-now.
There were a lot of proofreading issues that made me feel like the editor did not put enough care into the book. There were spelling errors, incorrect dates, and footnotes not in superscript. Also casual references to Wikipedia. In some ways it solidifies my feelings that this book is kind of a series of bound and printed Wikipedia articles.