European History Builder for Admission & Standardized Tests (Builder)

Rating:
Summary: Excedingly Technical
Review: This book contains all of the obscure factoids that you are more likely to find on History IQ than on the AP Euro exam. I regret every penny spent on it. It is a poor excuse for European history as compared with my textbooks: RR Palmer and Joel Colton's a History of the Modern World or John Merriman's A History of Modern Europe. It belittles many important social trends, while stressing minutia such as the Colloquy of Marburg or the Sacaardi Law. The tests are poor indicators of actual test performance; I got 45-50/80 on their tests and 75/80 on the book published by College board. Buy it only for DBQ practice.

Rating:
Summary: Excedingly Technical
Review: This book contains all of the obscure factoids that you are more likely to find on History IQ than on the AP Euro exam. I regret every penny spent on it. It is a poor excuse for European history as compared with my textbooks: RR Palmer and Joel Colton's a History of the Modern World or John Merriman's A History of Modern Europe. It belittles many important social trends, while stressing minutia such as the Colloquy of Marburg or the Sacaardi Law. The tests are poor indicators of actual test performance; I got 45-50/80 on their tests and 75/80 on the book published by College board. Buy it only for DBQ practice.