Katharine J. Lualdi

A solid, if unexceptional, accompaniment to the Making of the West textbook. It would benefit from the inclusion of more diverse sources, and from better contextualisation and glosses, especially on those texts related to the history of Islam. Students found those particularly hard to grapple with because they did not have the necessary cultural/historical background knowledge.

A slim volume with some general primary sources. The problem with this book is that it's such a broad topic crammed into such a small space. This book is more of a sampling of primary sources of the time period than any sort of substantial contribution. Good for those seeking a general historical background, but I wouldn't recommend it for those with more than a passing interest in history.

Like the first volume, this book is much too vague to be any use to the serious historian. It covers such a broad period of time, and really only gives a few small examples of primary sources from the time. There is some overlap with the time period from the first volume, but it's just not very thorough.

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