Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
Samuel Biagetti
188 episodes
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We follow the rise of civilization and of powerful empires in West Africa before the slave tade, based upon iron-working and the traffic in gold and salt across the Sahara, followed by the spread of wealth and power southward, towards the gold fields and the tropical forests, and finally the reverberating impacts of the arrival of Portuguese traders on the coast, which paved the way for the rise of the Atlantic slave trade.
Suggested further reading: Rodney, “History of the Upper Guinea Coast”; Ajayi, ed., “History of West Africa,” vol. 1
Image: Sculptural head from Ife, bronze & brass, ca. 1300s
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We follow the rise of civilization and of powerful empires in West Africa before the slave tade, based upon iron-working and the traffic in gold and salt across the Sahara, followed by the spread of wealth and power southward, towards the gold fields and the tropical forests, and finally the reverberating impacts of the arrival of Portuguese traders on the coast, which paved the way for the rise of the Atlantic slave trade.
Suggested further reading: Rodney, “History of the Upper Guinea Coast”; Ajayi, ed., “History of West Africa,” vol. 1
Image: Sculptural head from Ife, bronze & brass, ca. 1300s
Please sign on as a patron to hear patron-only lectures, including upcoming installment on Central AFrica: https://www.patreon.com/c/u5530632
"I Do Not Need a Lecture from You About Idealism" -- The Political Ideology of RWRB
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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"I Do Not Need a Lecture from You About Idealism" -- The Political Ideology of RWRB
Audio track from the new video, "Red, White & Royal Blue: A Historian's Analysis -- pt. 4: The Political Ideology of RWRB"--
Intro: Why the Politics of RWRB? – 0:00:30
Sec. 1: Idealism vs. Realism – 0:16:21
Sec. 2: The Hidden Agenda – what is left out of RWRB – 0:52:29
Sec. 3: The Trade Wars – 1:28:25
Sec. 4: The Elusive Democratic Majority – 1:40:09
Conclusions: Power & Pride – 1:47:45
We examine Red, White & Royal Blue as a window into the ideology of the Democratic Party and the liberal middle class in the early 21st Century, including its attraction to free trade, the Sun Belt, and particularly Texas, as symbols of the so-called “Emerging Democratic Majority” that would supposedly rule the rest of the century. We question the film’s basic opposition between idealism and realism and all of the implicit value judgments that it carries, and finally consider how the film excludes or avoids discussion of class and material issues, through a comparison with the 2014 British film “Pride.”
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Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
We follow the rise of civilization and of powerful empires in West Africa before the slave tade, based upon iron-working and the traffic in gold and salt across the Sahara, followed by the spread of wealth and power southward, towards the gold fields and the tropical forests, and finally the reverberating impacts of the arrival of Portuguese traders on the coast, which paved the way for the rise of the Atlantic slave trade.
Suggested further reading: Rodney, “History of the Upper Guinea Coast”; Ajayi, ed., “History of West Africa,” vol. 1
Image: Sculptural head from Ife, bronze & brass, ca. 1300s
Please sign on as a patron to hear patron-only lectures, including upcoming installment on Central AFrica: https://www.patreon.com/c/u5530632
