Sách - Black and British - A Forgotten History by David Olusoga (UK edition, paperback)

Ships from and sold by EXPERAL Singapore Publisher: Macmillan UK Origin: United Kingdom (Imported) ISBN 13: 9781529065602 Condition: Brandnew Binding: paperback Pages: 640 Dimensons: 198 x 131 x 47 | 500 (gram) ---------------------------------------- Review QuoteYou could not ask for a more judicious, comprehensive and highly readable survey of a part of British history that has been so long overlooked or denied. David Olusoga, in keeping with the high standards of his earlier books, is a superb guide. Review QuoteGroundbreaking. Review Quote[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a derful clarity of style and with great force and passion. It is thoroughly researched and there are many interesting anecdotes. Review QuoteA radical reappraisal of the parameters of history, exposing lacunae in the nation’s version of its past. Review QuoteA thrilling tale of excavation Review Quote[Olusoga] has discovered new and exciting research materials . . . Such sources give his writing freshness, originality and compassion . . . [ Black and British] will inspire and will come to be seen as a major effort to one of the greatest silences in British historiography Review QuoteLucid and accessible. Review QuoteOlusoga's account challenges narrow visions of Britain's past. By tracing the triangulated connections between Britain, America and Africa, he presents black British history in global terms [...] His subjects, even those who barely figure in the historical record, appear as individuals who matter, both in their own right and as historical exemplars. Review QuoteAn insightful, inclusive history of black people in Britain . . . Rich in detail and packed with strong personalities, this is an important contribution to our understanding of life in the UK. Review QuoteAn insightful, inclusive history of black people in Britain which is rich in detail and packed with strong, interesting characters. Review QuoteAmbitious . . . Long overdue Review QuoteOlusoga has single-handedly over recent years forced our forgotten history on the agenda . . . Written with an urgency it is a thrilling and engaging read. Review Quote An erudite exploration of racism and how it continues to mutate . . . it is exhilarating to read a fine mind at updated edition with new material of the acclaimed re-examination of a shared history, telling the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean. '[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.' – Kwasi Kwarteng, Sunday TimesIn this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean. This edition, fully revised and updated, features a new chapter encompassing the Windrush scandal and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, events which put black British history at the centre of urgent national debate. Black and British is vivid confirmation that black history can no longer be kept separate and marginalised. It is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation and it belongs to us all.Drawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the meval imagination, Elizabethan ‘blackamoors’ and the global slave-trading empire. It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, and that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wars. Black British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all.Unflinching, confronting taboos, and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black and white Britons have been entwined for centuries.Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.Winner of the Longman History Today Trustees’ Award.A Waterstones History Book of the Year.Longlisted for the Orwell Prize.Shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize. Biographical NoteDavid Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA winning film-maker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester, the author of several books including Black and British, and a columnist for the Observer, the Voice and BBC History Magazine, also writing for the Guardian and the New Statesman. He presents the long-running BBC history series Giá sản phẩm trên Tiki đã bao gồm thuế theo luật hiện hành. Bên cạnh đó, tuỳ vào loại sản phẩm, hình thức và địa chỉ giao hàng mà có thể phát sinh thêm chi phí khác như phí vận chuyển, phụ phí hàng cồng kềnh, thuế nhập khẩu (đối với đơn hàng giao từ nước ngoài có giá trị trên 1 triệu đồng).....