Pre-Owned American Nations : A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Hardcover) 9780670022960

from Tatoosh

Woodward's thesis is that the various geographic regions of the present-day United States were originally populated (i.e., conquered) by western European groups that differed in religious, social and political values. These values, in turn, were associated with different goals that became the pre...

from willszal

Colin Woodard is a demographer historian. This book traces the inception and evolution of eleven distinct North American nations over the past five hundred years. The book's foundational premise: that the United States has never been and will never be a unified nation. There are many fascinatin...

from ehousewright

I kept starting and stopping this book, but was determined to get it off my "currently reading" shelf one way or the other so made one more attempt. (It's in good company, the other book I tried to read for several years before finishing was A Tale of Two Cities.) I haven't taken an American Hist...

from snash

A fine tuning and expansion of [Albion's Seed] about the 11 cultural nations created upon their inception and holding firm through time, expansion of influence, and immigrant influxes. A very fascinating and revealing way to understand the hegemony of the Americas.

from tututhefirst

Colin Woodard has given us a thought-provoking, deeply researched, easy to read look at the various ethno-cultural groups making up the North American continent from Canada to Mexico, from the Native Americans who were subjugated by the Spanish (or annihilated by the Anglos) to the Inuits of Cana...