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A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts.
This is the first book for nonspecialists to explore the great precolonial kingdoms of Africa that have been marginalized throughout history. Great Kingdoms of Africa aims to decenter European colonialism and slavery as the major themes of African history and instead explore the kingdoms, dynasties, and city-states that have shaped cultures across the African continent.
This groundbreaking book offers an innovative and thought-provoking overview that takes us from ancient Egypt and Nubia to the Zulu Kingdom almost two thousand years later. Each chapter is written by a leading historian, interweaving political and social history and drawing on a rich array of sources, including oral histories and recent archaeological findings.
Great Kingdoms of Africa is a timely and vital book for anyone who wants to expand their knowledge of Africa's rich history.
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- Narrado por: Frank Block
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 272
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 230
This classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History told from an honest point
- De Lee en 12-19-21
De: Cheikh Anta Diop
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An African History of Africa
- From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
- De: Zeinab Badawi
- Narrado por: Zeinab Badawi
- Duración: 15 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
For too long, Africa’s history has been dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, or simply ignored. Now, Zeinab Badawi sets the record straight. In this fascinating book, Badawi guides us through Africa’s spectacular history—from the very origins of our species, through ancient civilizations and medieval empires with remarkable queens and kings, to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Strap in. One of my toughest listens yet.
- De Kindle Customer en 01-31-25
De: Zeinab Badawi
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The Stolen Legacy
- Greek Philosophy Is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy
- De: George G. M. James
- Narrado por: Anthony Stewart
- Duración: 4 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 770
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 654
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 651
In this classic work, Professor George G. M. James methodically shows how the Greeks first borrowed and then stole the knowledge from the Priests of the African (Egyptian) Mystery System. He shows how the most popular philosophers including Thales, Anaximander, Plato and Socrates were all treated as men bringing a foreign teaching to Greece. A teaching so foreign that they were persecuted for what they taught.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Provocative, well researched.
- De MALACO en 02-14-15
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Spice
- The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
- De: Roger Crowley
- Narrado por: Samuel Roukin
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Portuguese explorers competed to find their elusive source. But when the Portuguese finally reached the spice islands of the Moluccas in 1511, they set in motion a fierce competition for control.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Spice or Megellan?
- De BarbieAlaska en 06-21-24
De: Roger Crowley
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The Foundations of Western Civilization
- De: Thomas F. X. Noble, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Thomas F. X. Noble
- Duración: 24 h y 51 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,688
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,448
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,433
What is Western Civilization? According to Professor Noble, it is "much more than human and political geography," encompassing myriad forms of political and institutional structures - from monarchies to participatory republics - and its own traditions of political discourse. It involves choices about who gets to participate in any given society and the ways in which societies have resolved the tension between individual self-interest and the common good.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Engaging or Very Interesting
- De Tommy D'Angelo en 03-05-17
De: Thomas F. X. Noble, y otros
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Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood
- The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
- De: Anthony Kaldellis
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 15 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty years later, when political disunity, fiscal mismanagement, and defeat at the hands of the Seljuks and the Normans brought an end to Byzantine hegemony. By 1081, Byzantium's very existence was threatened.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Detailed but Tedious
- De Amazon Customer en 09-06-24
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1491
- New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- De: Charles C. Mann
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis
- Duración: 16 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,798
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,267
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,254
Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus' landing had crossed the Bering Strait 12,000 years ago; existed mainly in small nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas were, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last 30 years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Exposes Non-Academic Audience to The Debate Between Ideas of Pre-Colombian America's
- De Christopher en 01-19-17
De: Charles C. Mann
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Arabs
- A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires
- De: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 25 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 301
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 265
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 265
This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source of shared cultural identity over the millennia.
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4 out of 5 stars
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“The hourglass that swallows you”
- De Jefferson en 05-22-21
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Assyria
- The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
- De: Eckart Frahm
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 15 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 127
At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history. Assyria’s wide-ranging conquests have long been known from the Hebrew Bible and later Greek accounts. But nearly two centuries of research now permit a rich picture of the Assyrians and their empire beyond the battlefield.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too much volume change in narration
- De Erin en 06-19-24
De: Eckart Frahm
This book also goes farther back than the European "scramble for Africa", which a lot of euro-centric authors focus on. Yes, the majority of the African kingdoms discussed in the book are 17th century and beyond, but there are several chapters devoted to ancient African kingdoms, despite the challenges with the lack of written records. Since this book is recent, it incorporates some of the newer research techniques to fill in some of the gaps while still clearly acknowledging the flaws or inconclusive findings with them.
i highly recommend this book for anyone serious about African history.
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