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This book is listed as the third in a trilogy. Do you think there's any need to read them in order?

Edward No. As a matter of fact, this one is listed as "Cultures #3" even though it is chronologically the second one published.

They don't really build off of…moreNo. As a matter of fact, this one is listed as "Cultures #3" even though it is chronologically the second one published.

They don't really build off of one another; Sowell approaches race, migration, and conquest as they influence and are influenced by culture. If you're interested in his systematic thinking about culture as an historical artifact, then you certainly can read all of them and do it in order, but they aren't interdependent in terms of whether you will be able to understand the argument Sowell elaborates in any individual book because you happen not to have read the preceding volume of the series.(less)

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