Norman Davies is the author of Europe: A History.
He is Professor Emeritus at the University of London, Supernumerary
Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British
Academy.
[Davies] invests The Isles...with energy and enthusiasm.--The New
York Times
For all its length, it miraculously retains the pace and
exhilaration of an iconoclastic essay.--The Economist
The book succeeds, boisterous in its sheer variety.--The Wall
Street Journal
An audacious project, touching and reckless, enormously stimulating
and hugely necessary.--Washington Post Book World
Brilliant...Davies's fast-paced narrative and reassessments are
executed with such brio that putting the book down...is almost
impossible.--The Boston Sunday Globe
Any reader eager to challenge the enduring prejudices and bigotry
that have dominated the history of the Isles for so long will find
his myth-busting views both engaging and enlightening.--The
Christian Science Monitor
Excellently organized and...well written.--The Boston Book
Review
Davies has written a wondrous, landmark chronicle of the British
Isles...Bursting with fresh insights on nearly every page, this
magisterial narrative, scholarly yet down-to-earth and engrossing,
reveals Davies at his iconoclastic best.--Publishers Weekly (boxed
review)
A key book for its time...Moved by corrective passion and
insatiable curiosity...Seizes the conventional wisdom of the
moment, and destroys most of its foundations.--London Review of
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