Reviews

Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 by Anne F. Hyde

peterstanton's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

4.25

prof_pelon's review against another edition

5.0

Brain Food: Hearty Salad
Scandal Level: nihl
Violence: meh
Must be ___ old to read: 16
Read if you liked: the truth of the wild west
Re-readability: I will have to read it again
Thoughts: A fascinating book about life on the frontier after the Louisiana Purchase. I learned a lot about the structure of families and interpersonal relations during the time. An interesting read and fun for a history textbook.

ladykate03's review against another edition

5.0

In Empires Nations and Families, Anne Hyde undergoes an incredibly ambitious project; providing a history of the American West from 1800-1860. She does so in an ingenious way, using an original interpretive framework to cope with a large volume of material. By looking at individual family units and tracing their connections over different spaces and at different times, Hyde provides an engaging and interesting look at the history of the American West.

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mattrohn's review against another edition

3.0

There's a lot of interesting work here regarding the overlapping imperial claims to the trans-Mississippi West and the ways in which people lived under and outside of these official political categories, especially within interracial communities (whose identities are upended by the continued westward push of the American state), but it ultimately spreads pretty thin