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BOOK REVIEW: The Land Of Open Graves by Jason De León

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing The Land of Open Graves by Jason De León. In January, I read Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León. Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction 2024, this book is an anthropological study of human smuggling. Human smuggling, the author says, is not the same as human trafficking. Human trafficking happens against your will; you’re a victim of a crime that someone else is committing. Human smuggling, on the other hand, occurs when you pay (and are willing…

Aug 6, 2025
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BOOK REVIEW: Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelley Lytle Hernández

Hi everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández. This book was published on May 10th, 2022, and it is a nonfiction account of the events that occurred in Mexico and the United States leading up to the Mexican Revolution of 1910. These events can be summed up as follows: Miguel Hidalgo, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Benito Juárez, and, most prominently, Porfirio Díaz, all make an appearance in Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández but the most important…

Feb 7, 2023
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BOOK REVIEW: The Plantagenets by Dan Jones

Hi everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Review. Today I will be reviewing The Plantagenets by Dan Jones. This book relates 245 years of English history and warfare as the country transforms from an Anglo-Norman realm to one of the most powerful and sophisticated realms in Europe of the Middle Ages. However, the subtitle of this book is a little misgiving. There were only two queens in the entire period of English history that this book relates that can be said to have been significant players in the politics of their age; the first was Empress Maude, the mother of Henry…

Aug 16, 2022
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