 In a book review published in the American Slavic and East European Review, Philip E. Mosely (1952) said that Wilkinson "preformed a notable service in assembling and subjecting to painstaking analysis the numerous cartographic studies" regarding Macedonia.Mosely wrote that the study "shows convincingly the complexities and uncertainties which beset even the most conscientious scholar, as well as the temptations which beckon to the politician.