Book Review: A Time is Born
| DOI | 10.1177/002070204600100417 |
| Date | 01 October 1946 |
| Author | Harold I. Nelson |
| Published date | 01 October 1946 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
International
Journal
tion. Historians
and
publicists
are
visiting
those
areas.
Some
of
them,
though
by
no
means
all,
suffer
double
handicaps.
There
are
those
who
are
insufficiently
acquainted with
the
language
or
languages,
in
which
case,
they
are
unable
to
interpret
properly
current
situations
or
historical
sources.
In
other
cases
they
are
so
overwhelmed
by
the
hospitality
of
the
first
country they
visit,
and impressed
by
the very
attractive
virtues
of
a
splendid
people
that
thereafter
they
can
only
see
the
broad situation
through
the
eyes
of
this,
or
that
group.
At
the
present
time
in
addition
to
these horizontal
preferences,
there
are
ideological colorations
which
creep
in,
or
are
deliberately
injected
into
the
investigations.
Another
type
of
historical information
is
supplied
by
those scholars
who
were
born
in
this
region
but
who
have
come
to
Great
Britain
or
America
and
who
then
proceed
to
enlighten
their
adopted
country
concerning
the
historical
intricacies
and
complications
of
their
ancestral
lands.
Professor
Roucek belongs
to
this
last
named group.
He was
born
in
Czechoslovakia,
attended
Charles
University
in
Prague
and
then,
when
still
a
young
man,
came to
the
United
States.
He
took
courses
at
various Universities
and
finally
received
his
Ph.D.
degree
from
New
York
University.
He
is
at
present
Chairman
of
the Department
of
Political
Science
at
Hofstra
College.
His
chief
interests
lie
in
the
field
of
history,
political
science,
and
sociology.
He
is
a
prodigous worker
and
no
one
is
trying
with
a
greater
sense of
urgency
to
enlighten
the
American
public
with respect
to
Slavic
history.
At
present
he
is
one
of
the
chief
promoters
in
the
compiling
of
an
encyclopaedia devoted
to
Slavic
culture, history, and
biography which
we hope
may
be
pub-
lished
in
the
near
future.
The
present
volume
under
review
is
not
a
finished
work
but
it
con-
tains
a
vast
amount
of
relevant
material
and
excellent
bibliographies.
Written
at
a
time
when the Central
European
situation
is
in
a
particu-
larly
fluid
state
and
when
attempts
are being
made
to
shut
tight
the
lid
on
the
crucible
it
cannot
make
pretensions
to
full
knowledge
or
impar-
tiality.
It
is,
however,
a
book
which
every scholar
of
Central
European
affairs
should
have
on
his
desk
for purposes
of
reference.
One
fancies
that
Professor
Roucek
will
himself
be
pleased when
it
is
superseded
by
fuller
and more
exhaustive
monographs.
Saskatoon,
July
1946.
George
W.
Simpson
A
TIME
IS
BORN.
By
Garet
Garrett.
With
a
Foreword
by
Dorothy
L.
Sayers.
1945.
(Oxford:
Basil
Blackwell.
Toronto:
Copp
Clark.
131pp.
$2.50)
Stripped
of
its
allegory,
A
TIME
IS
BORN
analyzes
the
causes
of
global
wars and
concludes
that
they
have
flared
from
the
heat
of
the
struggles
of
nations
to
secure
economic
advantage.
The
author
traces
the growth
of
the
machine
economy
throughout
the
world,
from
its
commencement
in
the
Industrial
Revolution
in
Great
Britain
to
the
present
day,
with
its
highly
intensified
and numerous
national
machine
economies.
In
the
country
whose
economy
becomes
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