University Press of America
Pages: 430
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Trim: 6⅛ x 9¼
978-0-8191-8084-1 • Hardback • March 1992 • $136.00 • (£105.00)
978-0-8191-8085-8 • Paperback • February 1992 • $78.99 • (£61.00)
Reinhold Schumann is Professor of History at Boston University and an internationally known expert on the growth of the Italian cities. In 1987, he was knighted by the Italian Republic.
This concise, fluently written presentation is recommended for those who want to learn the essentials of Italian history in a relatively short time. A chronological table from Late Antiquity to the present, and index, and recommendations for further reading for the respective chapters make this a history book with many uses.
— Brucken
^IComments on the original edition: ...It must be emphasized that this History of Italy serves its purpose well, which is to give a brief presentation of Italian history to a foreign public, and that from this point of view it gains interest alsofor the Italian reader. In addition it represents an example in the highest degree of brevity of how to create an historical synthesis. The extensive narration of events is replaced by acute comments which bring out the essential of the matter and which fill themselves, in the most felicitous moments, with deep significance.^RRR
— Vincenzo Merolle Il Pensiero Politico
^IComments on the original edition:...It must be emphasized that this History of Italy serves its purpose well, which is to give a brief presentation of Italian history to a foreign public, and that from this point of view it gains interest also for the Italian reader. In addition it represents an example in the highest degree of brevity of how to create an historical synthesis. The extensive narration of events is replaced by acute comments which bring out the essential of the matter and which fill themselves, in the most felicitous moments, with deep significance.^R
— Vincenzo Merolle Il Pensiero Politico
This concise, fluently written presentation is recommended for those who want to learn the essentials of Italian history in a relatively short time. A chronological table from Late Antiquity to the present, and index, and recommendations for further reading for the respective chapters make this a history book with many uses.
— Brucken