Since Theocharis Detorakis’ History of Crete (1994), a new macro-history has not been written about Crete from antiquity to the present in English—until now. Moorey mainly employs English-language texts as his primary and secondary sources, which is a limitation for scholarly readers. ...instead of providing a complete bibliography, Moorey cites his sources in notes on each chapter at the end of the book. Not all direct quotations or numerical data—such as statistics and census counts—have source attributions, so the reader sometimes needs either to accept the author’s information at face value or to substantiate it independently. ...Chris Moorey’s A History of Crete effectively traces the history of Crete from antiquity to the present for a general audience.