African Europeans
Title | African Europeans PDF eBook |
Author | Olivette Otele |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2021-05-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1541619935 |
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.
Europeans and Africans
Title | Europeans and Africans PDF eBook |
Author | Michał Tymowski |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2020-09-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 900442850X |
In Europeans and Africans Michał Tymowski analyses the cultural and organizational aspects of contacts of both sides on the West African coast in the 15th and early 16th centuries, and the creation of the image of ‘other’ – African for Europeans, and European for Africans.
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Title | How Europe Underdeveloped Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Rodney |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2018-11-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1788731204 |
The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
Africa's Discovery of Europe
Title | Africa's Discovery of Europe PDF eBook |
Author | David Northrup |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
"Examines the full range of African-European encounters from an unfamiliar African perspective rather than from the customary European one"--Publisher description.
Africans and Europeans in West Africa
Title | Africans and Europeans in West Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Harvey M. Feinberg |
Publisher | American Philosophical Society |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Africa, West |
ISBN | 9780871697974 |
Why Europe Intervenes in Africa
Title | Why Europe Intervenes in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Gegout |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190845163 |
Gegout's book offers a sharp rebuke to those who believe that altruism is the guiding principle of Western intervention in Africa.
Rogue Empires
Title | Rogue Empires PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Press |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2017-04-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 067497185X |
The man who bought a country -- The emergence of an idea -- King Leopold's Borneo -- Bismarck's Borneo -- Epilogue: "A great act of folly