i had the same experience as @davidimarcus, in my understanding of us history there was a before and an after reading this book….even if i found parts of it hard going like the religion chapter early on…..i would like to go back to that chapter and try to actually understand it
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it reads weird now imo, almost presntist to the early 00's with how much it emphasizes it. not to say it's not a useful lens to view things, but i doubt he'd write it the same way now.
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Howe didn't get this lens from the academic zeitgeist of the 2000s, he got it from the zeitgeist of the 1830s. The historical figures he was writing about were the ones who put so much stress on comm/transp linking once-isolated ppls as the motor of history
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