Reviews for Europe: Cultural Construction and Reality

The average rating for Europe: Cultural Construction and Reality based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-11-24 00:00:00 Jonathan Crummett This book is good in describing how far the cultural encounters has begun in the Near East, whatever it was Greek or any major cultures in the world. It also describe how the Near East interacted with other major cultures, whatever it was easy or not to do the great hellenization begun with Alexander since the middle ages. The cultural interactions were not only very dynamic but also complex in emerging the clash of cultures in an attempts of the Near East to hold its identity.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-04-25 00:00:00 Bryan Kelly In the hands of a scholar like Richard Mackenney, the 1500s seem like only yesterday. Every aspect of the culture and politics of the time is illuminated and connected with the trends working their way throughout Europe. For example, one can see the disputes of religious doctrine intertwined with political power that for the modern reader suggest that the interlude of the Enlightenment to follow could well have been only that, an interlude. Twentieth-first century America, though this is only implicit in what Mackenney writes. resembles that landscape of dogma, identity and faction threatening the state at every turn. A pleasure to read as much as it is a book of enormous scholarship. Highly recommended.