Vivian Sanders answers “Does this book clip along or is it a slog?”

Teresa Hildebrandt asked this question about American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America:

Does this book clip along or is it a slog?

Vivian Sanders It's social history. Yeah there are lots of names and dates, but the point is that it's readable, well written, definitely not textbook history. This …moreIt's social history. Yeah there are lots of names and dates, but the point is that it's readable, well written, definitely not textbook history. This is the story of cultures immigrating to a new world (new to them anyway) and migrating across the continent and carrying their cultures with them. Almost entirely eliminating many of the existing cultures in their path. It is one of the stories of how we got to where we are as peoples and it makes room for the interweaving of all of the various other cultures and subcultures, and how they co-exist in some cases and clash or ignore each other in other cases. If you aren't interested in ethno-geo-cultural history, its a slog. (less)

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