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doelita's review against another edition
5.0
Making traditionalists mad, with their twisted version of history - gives me great pleasure. These are the same idiots that read through books about how some slave masters were “oh so nice” without blinking an eye.
hangngt_'s review against another edition
idk how I would rate this textbook…. It has put me through too much pain and late nights
if I’m supposed to read 1000+ pages worth of non-fiction textbook, at least allow me to qualified my pain toward my goodreads goal
if I’m supposed to read 1000+ pages worth of non-fiction textbook, at least allow me to qualified my pain toward my goodreads goal
professorhelmkenreads's review against another edition
4.0
CLASS IS OVER!
I liked this author's style of writing history books. I hope I get to use his textbooks again, and I will look into his other works as well.
I liked this author's style of writing history books. I hope I get to use his textbooks again, and I will look into his other works as well.
homosexual's review against another edition
3.0
My Booktube
overall does a good job at going through the history, well as best as you can given the page count and needing to cover over 100 years. And a variety of groups are covered in this, so like women, BIPOC, and the Gay Rights Movement are at least mentioned at various times throughout so that was a nice change.
However I had two issues.
1) Hawaii is just... never addressed. Like it is already barely mentioned but the theft of Hawaii is never talked about at all. The way it is discussed, you would think it was just a set of barren islands with no form of life before the US got there (literally don't think the Kingdom of Hawaii is even acknowledged).
2) Usual issue with history texts, these chapters, are too long. Once you get past the 20 page mark, people stop caring about the chapter and skim, which just gets to barely reading at all by the end of 40+ page chapters. It would've made more sense to break the chapters down further, since usually every chapter covers two big general topics of a decade (or two), so it could've easily been done.
overall does a good job at going through the history, well as best as you can given the page count and needing to cover over 100 years. And a variety of groups are covered in this, so like women, BIPOC, and the Gay Rights Movement are at least mentioned at various times throughout so that was a nice change.
However I had two issues.
1) Hawaii is just... never addressed. Like it is already barely mentioned but the theft of Hawaii is never talked about at all. The way it is discussed, you would think it was just a set of barren islands with no form of life before the US got there (literally don't think the Kingdom of Hawaii is even acknowledged).
2) Usual issue with history texts, these chapters, are too long. Once you get past the 20 page mark, people stop caring about the chapter and skim, which just gets to barely reading at all by the end of 40+ page chapters. It would've made more sense to break the chapters down further, since usually every chapter covers two big general topics of a decade (or two), so it could've easily been done.