Open AccessBook Review: The Roots and Consequences of Civil Wars and Revolutions: Conflicts that Changed World History
Author(s) -
Evan Davis
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.57.1.6459
Subject(s) - history , balance (ability) , sample (material) , classics , economic history , political science , psychology , chemistry , chromatography , neuroscience
Here we have an interesting idea for a monograph that is instead presented as a reference book and leaves a reviewer unsatisfied. In his short introduction, Tucker acknowledges the thirty entries are a small sample of all history, but says he has tried to strike a representative balance across time and geography. He further says the selections “have much to teach us about interpreting historical events.”