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God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades By Rodney Stark
Publisher:     HarperOne
Date:     2010-11-01    
Format:     pdf,rtf,epub,lit,lrf,mobi,fb2,pdb    
Language:     English    
Pages:     288
Sie: 10.6 MB

This is a superbly readable, concise, and well-documented history of Crusades that challenges popular assumptions with compelling evidence and explanation. As the author summarizes his theme, “The Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not conducted for land, loot, or converts. The crusaders were not barbarians who victimized cultivated Muslims. They sincerely believed that they served in God’s battalions.” The author also points out that the Crusades were not a part of Muslim cultural awareness for the last 700 years until appropriated by 20th propagandists as a tool of grievance and evidence of victimization in the wake of the fall of the Ottoman Empire. This book would make a superb gift for anyone, but especially for any school teacher or college professor on your gift list. I have two suggestions for the second edition of this book: better editing (there was a recurring and annoying misuse of “Cypress” for “Cyprus,” among other typographical errors) and some reorganizing of the ninth and tenth chapters to avoid the litany of dates, names, and places so deadly to the non-academic reader of military and/or political histories. That being noted, don’t wait for the second edition – “God’s Battalions” is well worth your time and effort, and it tells a story that badly needs retelling in this time of our history.

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