He always wanted to make it a part of thetopic being discussed, whether it was relevant or not, it sometimes seemed. Other than those two things and Leach wrote quite impartially and stuck tothe facts very well.As far as contradicting or supporting information I had already attainedon this topic, I would have to say that if anything, he agrees with it and addedsome. He expanded on many topics a lot more heavily than we ever discussedor read about in class. It did parallel some of the things that we learned suchas how capitalism came up and why it was so popular with the public. I thinkit gives some very good information on those things, as well as how the newsystem affected the growing country. It gives the perspectives of not onlyLeach but of other historians through quotes and ideals in general. Leach useda number of sources to create the point of view that he has, and he sharedthose things so as to help us form an opinion as well. I find it a fairly valuablebook to my education because despite the fact that it went almost overboardwith some of the information, it still defined the topic really well. It shed lighton a lot of things that are normally not as deliberated.Throughout the book, many conclusions and generalizations were made. Many of which were well-informed, however, at the same time a few of themwere discreetly biased. He made some assumptions and said some things thatmay not be agreed with by everyone. This sort of limited what he could teachand at the same time, gave some outlooks that other historians could not havegiven because they didn't care about the topics as much as he. Religion andLiterature are good examples of that, Leach's attachment to those two thingsreflected in the way that he talked about them. This sometimes may haveblind folded him when it came to other topics that didn't hold such a strongfeeling for but certainly helped out with those that he did.I thought that the book was, in fact, very ...
