Book Reviews and Notices : Europe in Our Time. 1914 to the Present. BY ROBERT ERGANG. (Boston and New York: D. C. Heath and Company. 1948. Pp. xv, 710. $5.50.)

• Published date: 01 December 1949
• Date: 01 December 1949
• DOI: 10.1177/106591294900200420
• Subject Matter: Articles

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objectivity required such a presentation, it may be answered that this type
of objectivity is not attainable as an ideal and rightly was not permitted
to warp the revelation of the author’s biases in other sections, e. g. with
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respect to the New Deal.
The final chapters, on western culture, are powerfully suggestive, if
only skeletal. Space permitted no more extensive treatment. It is unfor-
tunate that this material could not have been woven into the preceding
text. As it stands, the impression is created of typical textbook exposi-
tion, with subjects neatly compartmentalized, rather than of historical
interpretation in a grander style.
However, this volume constitutes a major contribution to historical
textbook literature, combining effective exposition with provocative judg-
ment.
GEORGE A. LIPSKY.
University of California.
Europe in Our Time. 1914 to the Present. BY ROBERT ERGANG. (Boston
and New York: D. C. Heath and Company. 1948. Pp. xv, 710.
$5.50.)
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By presenting this new text the author hopes to &dquo;contribute in some
little way toward giving the present generation a better understanding of
recent events and contemporary problems&dquo; (p. v). Mr. Ergang makes no
claim to have written a definitive history. Indeed even his sources are in
part already incomplete if not obsolete, since he was not able to draw on
the relevant materials unearthed by the trials of the war-criminals, the
various official white books, and the memoirs, some of them significant, of
leading figures in recent European politics.
However, within its self-imposed limitations the book will provide
for the beginning student a useful and fairly complete background to inter-
national events from the beginning of the First to the end of the Second
World War. A chapter entitled &dquo;Revolt of the East against Western
Imperialism&dquo; transgresses the European realm and records major develop-
ments in Asia during the period under consideration.
Throughout the book the author...