Social History of Chivalry Book

I had two minor problems with this book. First, the maps, especially in the first chapter, don't have all (or even most) of the places mentioned on them. My modern Spanish geography isn't bad. However, my knowledge of Prehistoric, Roman, or Visigothic Spanish geography? Completely lacking. When you're mentioning random Roman towns, at least pretend to put them all on the map. I found myself going between maps in the book and to google numerous times to figure out what area they were talking about, even in the broadest terms.

Second, as this book is an edited volume with multiple authors, a few of the chapters got a bit difficult to read. For example, the chapter by Raymond Carr (the overall editor, in fact) on the period between 1833 and 1931 jumped chronologically back and forth a lot. For example, over two pages he goes from 1906 to 1907 to 1914 to 1830 to 1922 to the 1840s to 1879 to 1880 to 1923 to the 1890s (228-229), by which point my response was just "Wait, what?"

Outside of those problems, this was a very, very good intro to Spanish history. It only took a few hours in total to read (broken up over a few days by life), and, while not hugely specific, did hit the major trends. While very specifically a history, especially in the Reconquest on, of the major politicians and economy, it still gave enough about the rest of Spain to not be too boring. I might have preferred more specific regional politics and cultural histories, but it was still quite good.