How Long to Read The Battle over America's Origin Story

How Long Does it Take to Read The Battle over America's Origin Story?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 38 minutes to read The Battle over America's Origin Story by Brian Regal

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book examines the legends of who ‘really’ discovered America. It argues that histories of America's origins were always based less on empirical evidence and more on social, political, and cultural wish fulfillment. Influenced by a complex interplay of Nativist hatred of immigrants and Aboriginal people, as well as distrust of academic scholarship, these legends ebbed and flowed with changing conditions in wider American society. The book focuses on the actions of a collection of quirky, obsessed amateur investigators who spent their lives trying to prove their various theories by promoting Welsh princes, Vikings, Chinese admirals, Neo-lithic Europeans, African explorers, and others who they say arrived centuries before Columbus. These myths acted as mitigating agencies for those who embraced them. Along with recent scholarship, this book makes extensive use of archival materials—some of which have never been employed before. It covers the period from the sixteenth century to the present. It brings together separate historiographic ideas to create a unified history rather than focusing on one particular legend as most books on the subject do. It shows how questions of who discovered America helped create the field of historical scholarship in this country. This book does not attempt to prove who discovered America, rather it tells the story of those who think they did.

How long is The Battle over America's Origin Story?

The Battle over America's Origin Story by Brian Regal is 328 pages long, and a total of 84,624 words.

This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Battle over America's Origin Story Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 42 minutes to read The Battle over America's Origin Story aloud.

What Reading Level is The Battle over America's Origin Story?

The Battle over America's Origin Story is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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