Reviews for The Law of Money and Financial Services in the EU (Oxford European Community Law Series)

The average rating for The Law of Money and Financial Services in the EU (Oxford European Community Law Series) based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-09-01 00:00:00 Ross Jendrzejczak The term "bibliophile" has always bothered me because of its largely unspoken decadent and sexual undertones, but sometimes it isn't a bad idea to equate a book dealing with a difficult subject in terms of physical intimacy. Kann's study of the Habsburg extravaganza could probably best be thought of in these terms as a "gentle, tender and embracing" lover. At nearly 600 pages, it might seem exhausting and perhaps more meticulous than one might want. The HE was no mean Empire, complex and all-encompassing from the get-go with more ethnic issues than you can shake a stick at. However, it stuck it out for centuries and this book is largely the story of how. "Gentle and tender" it might be, but to expand that metaphor, I could liken it to gentle embraces performed in zero gravity or while being concussed and blared upon by the amp stacks at a Scorpions concert, circa 1988. In other words, it isn't easy. My only gripe is the desperate lack of almost any cultural history. For example, Mozart and Beethoven get less than a page, turn out they're on the same page. But for political, military and social shenanigans, this is no cold shower!

Review # 2 was written on 2007-09-15 00:00:00 Thaddeus Bouska I found this something of a disappointment. Only those fascinated, as I am, by the subject would want to plough through this frequently turgid tome to the end. It is very full and very well balanced and I discovered many fascinating things (hence three stars), but it is also very dry in a particularly Germanic way. Some German academics do seem to have a talent for obfuscatory prose. Kann sometimes ties himself in quite unnecessary linguistic knots trying to explain his intellectual position on different historical theories. At times I was reminded of the German who said it was better to read Kant in English translation because it didn’t really make sense in the original. This does make sense, but it gave me a headache. If you are looking for a good, readable introduction to the subject, this is not it.