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An Untold History
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Olivette Otele
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Olivette Otele
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A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent
One of the Best History Books of 2021 — Smithsonian
Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans" and those called "Europeans." She gives equal attention to the most prominent figures — like Alessandro de Medici, the first duke of Florence thought to have been born to a free African woman in a Roman village — and the untold stories — like the lives of dual-heritage families in Europe's coastal trading towns. African Europeans is a landmark celebration of this integral, vibrantly complex slice of European history, and will redefine the field for years to come.
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“Ms. Otele, a black scholar at Britain’s University of Bristol, takes a broad view of her subject. Sometimes, the African Europeans of the title are, as one might expect, people living in Europe, but on many other occasions, they are blacks or people of mixed-race who have lived elsewhere, in other far-flung quarters of the Atlantic world. Her book is equally sprawling in terms of time, moving back and forth across the centuries, from antiquity to the present.... Some of Ms. Otele’s most interesting material is future-looking, asking questions about the ambivalence experienced by blacks in contemporary Europe.” (Wall Street Journal)
"This brisk, nuanced synthesis reminds us that there have been Africans in Europe for millenia." (Stephen Carter, Bloomberg Opinion, The 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021)
“Magisterial.... A story of violence and exclusion but also extraordinary destinies and achievements. Particularly admirable is Otele’s command of the subtleties of identity formation and change over time, as well as her marvellous cast of women characters, such as Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire’s muse and lover.” (Sudhir Hazareesingh, The Guardian, The Best Books of 2020)
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A provocative account showing that "China" - and its 5,000 years of unified history - is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day. China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but "China" as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far more recently by a small group of intellectuals.
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trash
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The Trouble with White Women
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Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their White feminist politics dispossess the most marginalized to liberate themselves. In The Trouble with White Women, Schuller brings to life the 200-year counter-history of Black, Indigenous, Latina, poor, queer, and trans women pushing back against White feminists and uniting to dismantle systemic injustice.
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Reframes the past by today’s standards
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Slavery and Islam
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- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
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What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong? What does this mean about what you’ve been venerating? No issue brings this question into starker contrast than slavery. Every major religion and philosophy condoned or approved of it, but in modern times there is nothing seen as more evil. Americans confront this crisis of authority when they erect statues of Founding Fathers who slept with their slaves. And Muslims faced it when ISIS revived sex slavery, justifying it with verses from the Quran and the practice of Muhammad.
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A Bold and Broad Study of a Difficult Topic
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Culture and Imperialism
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A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism, this book explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. This classic study, the direct successor to Said's main work, is read by Peter Ganim ( Orientalism).
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BRAVO, AUDIBLE!! WE NEED MORE SAID!! REAL BOOKS!!
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Scottish History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Scotland
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This captivating history audiobook takes you on a remarkable journey from the earliest extensive historical record of Scotland through the long struggle toward nationhood, all the way to postwar Scotland.
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Written for a male audience
- By Anonymous User on 12-11-19
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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Age of Enlightenment, then pay attention.... The life of an eminent scientist during the Scientific Revolution and the ensuing Enlightenment was not easy. Ambitious people were killed in the name of the Catholic Church for their scientific and philosophical works, which were often viewed as heretical. Major figures of the Enlightenment period include Voltaire, Isaac Newton, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, and Thomas Jefferson.
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Should Be Requred Listening In Schools
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In The Case for Nationalism, Lowry explains how nationalism was central to the American Project. It fueled the American Revolution and the ratification of the Constitution. It preserved the country during the Civil War. It led to the expansion of the American nation’s territory and power, and eventually to our invaluable contribution to creating an international system of self-governing nations.
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Truth does matter !
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The Chalice and the Blade
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Riane Eisler believes that war and the "war of the sexes" are concepts neither divinely nor biologically ordained. Join the author as she reconstructs a prehistoric culture based on partnership rather than domination and traces the roots of the global shift to patriarchy. Eisler, an acclaimed scholar, futurist, and activist, also presents new scripts for living based on a more socially, economically, ecologically, personally, and spiritually balanced society. This script is in direct opposition to the tension and violence typical of what she calls the dominator model. Her vision is the partnership model, which today is struggling to reemerge. This program is an important contribution to that struggle.
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the chalice and the blade
- By Anne on 07-25-08
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Before We Were Trans
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Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance. Heyam looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures.
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The history we need right now
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Ancient Greece, Second Edition
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In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century BC. Focusing on the development of the Greek city-state and the society, culture, and architecture of Athens in its Golden Age, Martin integrates political, military, social, and cultural history in a book that will appeal to students and general audiences alike. Now in its second edition, this classic work now features updates throughout.
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Just the way I like it!
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The Craft
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Founded in London in 1717 as a way of binding men in fellowship, Freemasonry proved so addictive that within two decades it had spread across the globe. Masonic influence became pervasive. Under George Washington, the Craft became a creed for the new American nation. Masonic networks held the British empire together. Under Napoleon, the Craft became a tool of authoritarianism and then a cover for revolutionary conspiracy. Both the Mormon Church and the Sicilian mafia owe their origins to Freemasonry.
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The best book about Freemasonry out there.
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- Dominique
- 08-07-24
Excellent analysis of an untold history
An excellent read for a reader wanting to discover complex lesser known histories of peoples of African descent on the European continent.
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- Mosunmola
- 02-01-23
What an amazing history
I enjoyed listening to and learning more about Afro European history. The research done and painstaking attention to the several African lives that make up the histories of many European countries today, is so profound.
Great read👏👏
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- Venus
- 01-31-23
Great Book!
I really enjoyed this book! This book informs and intersects details about people of African descent, covering many areas from religion to slavery, and more.
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- Nneka Gigi
- 02-21-23
Worth the read!
This work was extremely helpful in excavating my history and those who look like me.
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- Scott GG Haller
- 09-25-21
A fascinating overview of overlooked history
The history of Africans and their descendents encountering and adapting to Europeans colonizing from the north and emigrating/being taken to far off lands which eventually became their homes over the centuries largely focuses on biographies of specific dual heritage people interacting with various white Europeans societies & governments. At times, as the author points out, the first hand information is scant or outright missing -- making clear the challenges of gathering a thorough history of a topic assumed by some to be nonexistent.
It has been unusual to hear an audiobook read by the author unless the writer is also a performer. That proved to be awkward at times in this case. Professor Otele has an interesting accent where the French roots are clear and many words are quite English, but sometimes the pronunciations are odd and the phrasing uncomfortable. It sounded like the recording was a chore -- with some sections clearly being recorded at a different time in a different place.
While I was ultimately glad to hear an accomplished academic presenting the fruit of her labor, at times I wondered what a more polished performance of the text by Idris Elba or Letitia Wright (both mentioned towards the end) would have added.
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- Ronald Mitchell
- 08-01-22
A good book
A good listen and good history. Author struggles a bit due to her French accent.
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- Julius Chatters
- 02-07-23
Eye-opening Narrative
I knew very little if our Afhro Europeans' struggles with racism and now know that there is NO safe haven for US. We have to continue to persevere and improve OUR situation by ANY and ALL means.
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- William C. Robinson
- 01-11-22
Granada 1st black professor
great experience illustrating you don't know what you don't know! We are really human race and have always been so!
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- Nicola Rodney
- 12-07-22
Very informative
I really enjoy the history . It’s also very important to know and understand your history.
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- LLA
- 01-18-23
Terrible reader
1-Please have people who are fluent in English read in English
2-history is shallow. Should have gone back further than Roman Empire
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