About This Book
The author offers a combined traveler's account and concise history of Roumania, surveying its contemporary political position between larger powers, debates over Danube navigation, and the social transformation produced by the creation of peasant proprietorship; he reports on institutions, commerce, public works, and daily life from direct observation, and traces the national past from Roman conquest and successive migrations to recent reforms, all illustrated and supported by maps, portraits, plans, and photographic reproductions.