History Today, January 1st, 1998
In this volume Peter Bakewell inaugurates the Blackwell History of the World, an ambitious undertaking. Fourteen other volumes are already in preparation, ranging in content from the History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific to the Origins of Human Society and the History of the Classical West. Blackwells is to be congratulated on launching such a valuable project, and for issuing an immaculate first volume.
The author is a specialist in the history of Spanish America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and anticipates criticism of the book by stressing that its main focus i...
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