Book review
Choose one and let me know which one as soon as possible
Bisaha, N. (2004). Creating East and West Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks. University of Pennslyvania Press.
Brownworth, L. (2009). Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization. Three Rivers Press.
Chodakiewicz, M. J. (2012). Intermarium: The Land between the Black and Baltic Seas. Transaction Publishers.
Freeze, G. L. (2009). Russia A History (Third Edition). Oxford University Press.
Fudge, T. A. (2017). Jan Hus: Religious Reform and Social Revolution in Bohemia. I.B. Tauris.
Herman, A. (1997). The Idea of Decline in Western History. The Free Press.
Herman, A. (2017). 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder. Harper.
Jezermik, B. (2003). Wild Europe: The Balkans in the gaze of Western travellers. Saqi Books.
Johnson, L. R. (2011). Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends (Third Edition). Oxford University Press.
Judson, P. M. (2016). The Habsburg Empire: A New History. Harvard University Press.
Kort, M. (2015). The Soviet Colossus: History and Aftermath (Seventh Edition). Routledge.
Liulevicius, V. G. (2011). The German Myth of the East: 1800 to the Present. Oxford University Press.
McNamara, K. J. (2016). Dreams of a Great Small Nation: The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe. PublicAffairs.
Said, E. W. (2003). Orientalism. Penguin Books.
Starr, S. F. (2013). Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age From the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. Princeton University Press.
Wang, Z. (2012). Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations. Columbia University Press.
Wolff, L. (1994). Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment (Paperback). Stanford University Press.
Wolff, L. (2002). Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press.
Woods Jr., T. E. (2005). How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. Regnery Publishing.
Zamoyski, A. (1987). The Polish way: A thousand-year history of the Poles and their culture. John Murray Publishers Ltd.
Book Reviews:
Students are expected to write a review of a selected book above or one that is approved by the instructor. Students should provide a summary of the book and cite at least one review.
What is your opinion of the book? Was it well organized? Was the author credible? Did the author get his/her facts correct?
• Paper Format
o Introduction: Thesis statement
A general description of the topic
Summary of argument: Students should provide a concise summary and thesis of the book (what is your argument of the paper)
o About the Author(s): Brief biography of the author explaining their qualifications and proficiency and about the topic
o Contents: The body of the essay, Comprehensive summary of the key points from the book that support your argument
o Are the Strengths/Weakness? Pinpoint what were the strengths and weakness of the book
What did you enjoy/dislike about the book?
o Conclusion: Summarize your opinion of the book and recognize who the audience the author is attempting to target
