Reviews for Liverpool Merchant House Being the History of Alfred Booth And Company 1863-1958

The average rating for Liverpool Merchant House Being the History of Alfred Booth And Company 1863-1958 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-11-08 00:00:00 Michael Coughlin Countries disappear, but history remains When I was a kid I had a globe on which each country was colored. Yugoslavia was purple. I couldn't see anything beyond that and the names of a couple of cities. Before I could ever set foot there, though, Yugoslavia disappeared. It broke up into smaller units such as Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, etc. By that time, I was aware of the ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences that eventually spiraled into some nasty wars. "Ethnic cleansing" became a well-known word in the USA during those years even if the actual fact had existed all around the world throughout history. I read Yugoslav literature in the 1960s, I heard some good music, and met many people from there while living in Melbourne, Australia. I bought this book back in 1972, but by the time I got around to reading it, Yugoslavia was long gone. A group of Cambridge University professors put this volume together in the late '60s and it's definitely still relevant. It just doesn't bring the story up to date. If you'd like a well-written, clear, and succinct history of each of the regions that made up that lost nation, you have come to the right place. Out of 12 chapters, seven concentrate on a single region each. Kosovo is not separated from Serbia, and Dalmatia, with its long association with Venice and Italian culture, gets its own chapter though it never became a separate state. The other four look at the formation of Yugoslavia as a nation, Yugoslavia between the two world wars, Yugoslavia during World War II, when 1.7 million citizens were killed (almost four times the number lost by the USA which had a much bigger population), and the political and economic directions taken after 1945. While tracing the forces for unification, the book also shows the feelings against a centralized, Serbian-dominated state that existed from the start. You will muse on what might have been if things had been different. For a concise history with over forty interesting maps, you can't beat this one.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-12-26 00:00:00 Amber Arrington I picked up this book at the school library where I teach. The book is small, and as the title suggests, it has several pictures which I appreciated a lot. I’m glad I had the opportunity to read this because I do not believe it is in print anymore. It’s a quick read and jammed full of interesting facts and stories having to do with the 16th President’s death. Even though the book is probably written for 5-7th graders, it’s quite informative no matter how old you are, and the writing is very engaging. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Lincoln and his assassination.