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2026-03-12 03:05 UTC
Next was "Habits of Empire" by Walter Nugent. This book examines the long, continuous history of US territorial aggression, mostly vis-a-vis other Western powers. However. Native Americans are barely mentioned until chapter 8. Taken as a whole, I look at this book as a great version of the history I was taught as a kid - overly narrow but rigorous in what it focuses on. If you keep that in mind I can highly recommend it
Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/10301792/s/a-great-western-focused-history-with-a-massive-omission#anchor-10301792 (4/5) #history
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@bwaber@hci.social 2026-03-12 03:05
Last was "Fatherhood" by Augustine Sedgewick. This book is best viewed as a collection of short biographies of white men who made important contributions to Western thought over the millennia. This makes for engaging reading but little insight into the nature of fatherhood itself or how it changed over the centuries Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/10301867/s/a-biography-centric-history#anchor-10301867 (5/5) #history