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Too big a subject to be cut down to 137 pp.
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Stein is an obvious expert on the subject matter and explained things deftly but briefly. He covered 2500 years of very eventful, complicated, and important intellectual, political, and legal history and millions of pages of primary material in 137 pages. It should be obvious that such a book can at best be only a primer and at worst only confusing.
I found the book to be a lot of both. The book is fascinating in what it tells and its brevity whets one's appetite for more. There are extensive suggestions for further reading. However, the myriad of names, terms, and dates is simply too much even for a primer. Stein cannot avoid mentioning this or that minor figure or anonymous text. I imagine the idea of such a brief introduction to such an immense subject is to gain a wide audience and give the student a quick and shallow overview. That is a laudable idea, but 137 pages is just not enough. The book's impact is seriously weakened by too much that is only mentioned without proper explanation. Confusion results from such a wave of names and dates with too little to help one appreciate them. The book's size should at least be doubled. The subject simply cannot be properly dealt with in so little space. |
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