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Originally Posted by breathesgelatin
I recommend John Thornton's African and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800, if anyone is interested in these issues.
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That wasn't on my reading list at all. I need to get it.
The book I mentioned is actually online in its entirety.
http://www.marxists.org/subject/afri...rope/index.htm
Wish I could remember my other sources. I don't doubt you, merely because I haven't studied that far back. I'll admit to when I'm wrong or uninformed. I am, however, extremely passionate about the problems we caused that need undoing yet don't see an end in this lifetime. That just pisses me off. Or people who say, 'they were better off when we colonized them. And stripped them off all their natural resources. And left them with poverty and destitution. Hell let's bring back the apartheid.'
What I actually want to do with my life is get my RN, specialize in critical care, trauma and tropical medicine and then work for Medecins Sans Frontieres for the rest of my life. Especially considering my aunt goes 'on mission' with her church to India, stays in a 4 star hotel, goes to a temple type thing (not clear on that) for 5 days, comes back to the 4 star, showers, comes home and then tells us that the poverty in India is all a myth. Um...words fail me. She even leaves with an empty suitcase and just buys her clothes in India, then gives them to charity shops when she comes back because it's so cheap. It's such...a British attitude that it winds me up no end. I can't help but see red. No poverty? Did you even leave your air-conditioned room? No, the British Empire had nothing to do with that either.
Okay, that's waaay off-topic now. BreathesGelatin, can I get that book on Amazon or is it out of print do you know?