Books by Pekka Hämäläinen
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English
review 1: "Empire" is a misnomer--there was no emperor, no imperial government, hardly any government at all. As the author himself says, the Comanches were nomadic pastoralists, like the ancient Scyths, the Huns before Attila, or the Mongols before Genghis Khan. They pioneered the horse...
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English
review 1: Okay, I'll get this out of my system first: skip chapter 6. There, that's better.It's not often that I read a book that fundamentally changes my sense of a major part of American history, especially not in one of the areas I read a lot in. PH's reconsideration of the history of...