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    <body><![CDATA[As someone who writes professionally in this area (unabashed plug: watch for God's Mercies, Doubleday Canada, in October 07) I have high praise for this title, a long-overdue assessment of native culture and civilization before (and at) contact with Europeans. I'm still reading it, but I've been imp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3645853">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The survey of current thinking on the population of the americas via that Beringia land bridge and the subsequent summary of the evolutions of early american society is interesting.<br/><br/>But the repeated comparisons between american society and eurasian society are really fraught and often bel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6141363">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So the major thing to note here is that this is a history of the inhabitants of pre-Columbian Western Hemisphere... written by a feature journalist. It has a lot of straight history, but also a lot of information gleaned from non-standard or new techniques, such as archaeology, forensic science, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5040813">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very well written, a good mixture of factual evidence and narrative. The main take home point here should be known to everyone, especially Americans. There is a reason why there was a period of 128 years between Colombus' landing and a permanent European settlement in North America. Namely, there we...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4569724">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book could be good. Unfortunately the author seems determined in every part of his &quot;research&quot; to interject his own opinion without duly backing it up. I stopped reading it somewhere around page 100, where the author makes the comparison between ritual human sacrifice by the Aztecs and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28995394">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Author Charles Mann's purpose is to debunk three commonly held ideas about the Americas before Columbus: that the continents were sparsely populated, that the social and technical development was limited and that the locals left the environment untouched.<br/><br/>In discussing scholarly debates o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14384542">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mann is not a historian, but rather is a journalist. And for that reason, this book does read like a history text (like <em>Guns, Germs, and Steel</em>). But it is exceptionally researched and fantastic.<br/><br/>Mann describes North and South America in a way that traditional textbooks and contemporary rh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2771995">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A semi-engaging analysis of life before the European discovery of the Americas, and extrapolation from newly discovered information on the depth and breadth of native culture and society pre-contact.  <br/><br/>I picked up as this is a subject of cursory interest to me, and I indeed learned a lot....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21269149">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Confession:  I never finished this, leaving about 50 pages (about 15%)on the table.  With non-fiction books that are based around a particular theory I feel like as long as I read enough to internalize the argument and really understand some of the evidence I can stop reading when I get bored.  If I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16500454">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very interesting look at pre-Conquest America, containing some relatively new (and far from established) academic theories.  The main thesis of the book is that pre-Columbian American societies were far more advanced and populous than recorded by European colonists/invaders/priests.  The successiv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9453">more...</a>]]></body>
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