Reviews for Mathematics with Statistics Solutions Manual

The average rating for Mathematics with Statistics Solutions Manual based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-01-06 00:00:00 Ricky Richard A solid narrative political history with cultural and some social asides that covers Europe from circa 1870 to circa 1990 unevenly. The first problem, in comparison with Judt's PostWar is that Joll is covering 120 years in less than five hundred pages, while Judt takes on 65 years in about seven hundred pages. There simply isn't enough space to deal convincingly with the subject matter. At its worst the book is a narrative political history of Britain, France, Germany and Italy with occasional mentions of other countries. Portugal is mentioned as an imperial power and then disappears until it joins the EEC, Austria gets a handful of mentions after WWI in at least four of which we are told that Dollfuss was assassinated in 1934 (less significant I would have thought than the assassination of Walter Rathenau in 1922 which only merits two mentions), the downside of this is that when events are covered - like the Colonels Coup in Greece, they come out of the blue and aren't shown in their historical context. The second major problem is the that the book was originally published in 1973 and later revised. I can't help imagine that the lack of access to Eastern Europe after WWII limited the way in which Joll dealt with those countries in the pre-war period too. Not that this sticks out particularly - Scandinavia and the Iberian peninsula are also largely passed over, reinforcing the view that Europe is in fact western Europe and beyond it is some obscure grey zone of obscurity before one reaches either Africa or Asia. The other issue with this is that the expansion of the EU since 1989 would cause a historian writing today to give its establishment and rise more attention than it gets in this book (although having said that Marshall Aid doesn't get much space either). Having said that, the tighter focus on a limited number of the bigger states helps give a narrative focus that works well in the chapters that deal with the build up to the world wars. What the shortcomings of the volume bring home is just how ambitious an undertaking of this sort is. Yes there are omissions and curious judgements but it does provide a readable introduction to recent European history - but it is an introduction and not a destination.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-08-21 00:00:00 Amy Millman The book grew on me as I read. Joll does a very good job of balancing the history of different nations/nationalities. It is an interesting book to read right now particularly since he briefly discusses the rise of the European Union and how the British were denied entry at first. The Conservatives, back then, were the ones who wanted admittance. It is also interesting since Joll wrote before the fall of the Berlin Wall. A very good review of late nineteenth and early twentieth century European history.