Jane’s Reviews > Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America > Status Update

Last chapter is the best one though very frustrating historical facts

This author does not know how to tell a story. There’re stories here. She’s just too fixated on a thesis for every chapter, and it is inexpertly asserted and defended. The result is an anachronistic recounting of people doing this and that, sometimes why, sometimes what happened next, and then wipe the slate and start again in the next chapter. Dammit I’m mad

It seems the early colonists to Virginia and the Chesapeake were the dregs of humanity. They were the worst. Their animal husbandry was so negligent, they’d make modern puppy mill trailer park people look like they’re at least doing something. Just two of a kind.