Reviews for History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the...

The average rating for History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the... based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-01-22 00:00:00 Bob Smith Fascinating read and a must for any Chelsea fan. However, there is a constant undercurrent of bitterness running through the book. At the time of writing the book, Mr. Mears still hadn't reconciled himself to the changing fortunes of Chelsea and is constatntly comparing the current atmosphere with the bygone days. Keeping the subjectivity of us fans aside, the book reads more like the memories of the man associated with the club rather than an objective history fo the club itself.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-07-22 00:00:00 Brian Fitzpatrick This is a good, fairly concise introduction to the richly varied history of the Arab world. In comparison with the first edition of 1950, Lewis certainly has partially assimilated the critique on 19th and 20th century orientalism (which only viewed the Muslim world from Western eyes) and removed the worst deformations. But the book remains a bit unbalanced. Lewis zooms in almost entirely on the so-called heyday of Arab civilization, from the 7th to the 12th century, and the evolutions from then on are haphazardly treated in a few dozen pages. This has to do with the fact that the Islamic expansion afterwards was mainly a Turkish, Persian, Indian and East Asian affair, and much less an Arab one. That distinction can certainly be made, but it remains artificial, because also in the so-called flowering period the Islamic civilization had various roots. Even in this updated edition of 1990, Lewis gave almost no attention to recent developments, and especially not to the rise of political islamism and its violent offspring. A pity.