Thirteenth Child's Premises
May. 13th, 2009 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jsburbidge(No, I haven't read the book.)
Without expressing a direct opinion on the racefail-allied aspects of the premises and the ensuing discussion --
I just finished rereading 1491 and I noted the emphasis on the degree to which the "wilderness" which the settlers found was actually a heavily human-formed landscape -- with the obvious implications that a genuinely "virgin forest" landscape would be rather different.
Accordingly -- how could one possibly imagine that a European settlement pattern in such an alternate timeline would resemble that of our timeline in any particular?
Just wondering.
Without expressing a direct opinion on the racefail-allied aspects of the premises and the ensuing discussion --
I just finished rereading 1491 and I noted the emphasis on the degree to which the "wilderness" which the settlers found was actually a heavily human-formed landscape -- with the obvious implications that a genuinely "virgin forest" landscape would be rather different.
Accordingly -- how could one possibly imagine that a European settlement pattern in such an alternate timeline would resemble that of our timeline in any particular?
Just wondering.
