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corvidaedream · 1 year ago

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the horror of reading a really bad nonfiction book w terrible takes and then looking up the author and seeing she's been the head of multiple societies and an emeritus professor in the subject for decades

#messages from the ouija board #its the georgians by penelope j corfield and its so bad #the parts about popular culture in the 18th century sre interesting enough #like im making a reading list of all the primary sources that sound worth reading #but the parts about georgian england & its colonies interactions w the world is so bloodless and blameless i could kill her #like. colonialism is barely acknowledged and literal genocide is chalked up to 'mismanagement' and 'nature'#the potato famine. the eic in bengal. the colonization of australia. all of it! just some oopsies!

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