in a book acceptable to a modern publisher, means that the elaboration of some of the ideas and motivations for key actors is not developed as much as some might like. History is about people and if the fullness and richness of those people and their interactions is not present something is lost in a discourse concerning race and culture. This issue regarding development of key and ancillary actors, as well as the point raised above about the book’s authority on the security and defence dimensions of the British Empire are all reflective of the perils of trying to do multi-disciplinary history: you can’t satisfy all critics. Far too often books which attempt to do what all journal and conference papers by esteemed leaders of the field call for: multi-disciplinary, multiarchival, multi-lingual, etc., are then summarily ripped to shreds, in the politest and most obsequious manner of course, when the works in question actually attempt to do so. Tumblin has done a very good job of hunting out the necessary evidence to make the case that he does. The current fashion to now declare such hard work and thoughtfulness incomplete because it fails to address every possible perspective is not relevant to what this book is and what it does. It does what it states in the introduction that it will do, and it does it very well. As such, it is a book that is required on the reading list of any course on the British Empire.

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书评：Richard P. Tucker、Tait Keller、JR McNeill 和 Martin Schmid 撰写的第一次世界大战的环境史

在现代出版商可以接受的书中，这意味着对关键人物的一些想法和动机的阐述没有像某些人所希望的那样发展。历史是关于人的，如果这些人的充实和丰富以及他们的互动不存在，那么在关于种族和文化的话语中就会丢失一些东西。这个关于关键和辅助角色发展的问题，以及上面提到的关于这本书在大英帝国的安全和国防方面的权威性的观点，都反映了试图做多学科历史的危险：你不能满足所有批评者。很多时候，试图完成该领域受人尊敬的领导者所要求的所有期刊和会议论文的书籍：多学科、多档案、多语言等，然后被草草撕成碎片，当然，以最礼貌和最谄媚的方式，当有关作品实际上试图这样做时。通布林在寻找必要的证据方面做得非常好，以证明他所做的事情。现在宣布这种辛勤工作和深思熟虑是不完整的，因为它未能解决所有可能的观点，这与这本书是什么以及它的作用无关。它做了它在介绍中所说的它会做的事情，而且做得很好。因此，这是一本关于大英帝国的任何课程的阅读清单都需要的书。现在宣布这种辛勤工作和深思熟虑是不完整的，因为它未能解决所有可能的观点，这与这本书是什么以及它的作用无关。它做了它在介绍中所说的它会做的事情，而且做得很好。因此，这是一本关于大英帝国的任何课程的阅读清单都需要的书。现在宣布这种辛勤工作和深思熟虑是不完整的，因为它未能解决所有可能的观点，这与这本书是什么以及它的作用无关。它做了它在介绍中所说的它会做的事情，而且做得很好。因此，这是一本关于大英帝国的任何课程的阅读清单都需要的书。