Reviews for History of the American People

The average rating for History of the American People based on 2 reviews is 1 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-02-03 00:00:00 John Smith An Orientalist, Islamophobic, laughably incorrect book of history that is more useful in analyzing the author's biases than accurate history. Pass.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-02-20 00:00:00 Edward Auzin For a "historian," the author was laughably nonobjective. Even for the book being written just after World War 1. He seemed to hate every civilization that wasn't Roman (or ones he perceived weren't Roman). This includes the Byzantines, Revolutionary France, and the Ottomans. There was very little about Balkan culture. The most informative parts of the book are in the first few hundred pages, as it covers the migrations of the Slavic peoples into the Balkans. After that, the book would better be titled "The History of the Balkans under Subjugation," because it spent the majority of its time talking about the Byzantines or the Ottomans. I get that you have to talk about both of these empires to cover the Balkans, but beyond Slavic resistance to the Ottomans, there wasn't a whole lot about the Slavs. The book covered the Bulgarians and the Romanians more than any other Slavic peoples. Croatia was practically ignored, as was Bosnia. Serbia was mentioned a lot less than I would expect considering how central it was to the politics of the region. I guess if you want a retelling of the all the Ottoman wars in the 19th and 20th centuries from someone who has a great disdain for them, then this might be your book. Otherwise, I would skip it.