Meeting the need for an up to date English language survey this informative and accessible book will be welcomed by Egyptologists and their students as well as by other readers interested in learning more about the culture and religion of ancient Egypt
#364850 in Books Cornell University Press 2000-11-30Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.21 x .71 x 6.14l; 1.00 #File Name: 0801484375320 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Views on slaveryBy Charles NicholasReally good book with an often neglected insight to slavery. Could have focused a little more on who sold the slaves vs who bought them. I.e. tribal warlords or Arab slave traders.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy CustomerJust the plain truth concerning America's hyper hypocrites.4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Pot; meet kettleBy Beth ElliottBy now; it should be general knowledge among anyone presuming to comment on American race relations and the Civil/War Between the States that the Northern states did not exactly have clean hands when it came to keeping African (and then African-American) slaves. Works like "Complicity" attest to the element of discovery that recent academic research and journalism have made possible. Nonetheless; it is taken as common knowledge that the Northern states achieved emancipation reasonbly quickly after the Revolution; even if motivated chiefly by economics. It is still widely presumed that people in the Northern states; the New England states in particular; were particularly enlightened about slavery/emancipation and race; and therefore morally superior to Southerners.For this reason; this book is shocking: while it delineates the gradual; compensated emancipation that was a feature of England's vaunted anti-slavery laws; and thus outlines an alternative method that could have been used to end slavery in all states; it demonstrates that this process coexisted with the kind of racism people routinely associate with the South and the South only. Dialect humor; "darkie" cartoons; and the lingering assumption that Black people owed labor to whites go against the cultivated image of enlightened New England. Even those already skeptical of such claims to Northern moral superiority cannot but find themselves taken aback by Melish's illustrations of Northern prejudice and dismissiveness. For one thing; she hauls a carefully cultivated image up short. For another; the attitudes she demonstrates among Northerners are those that give modern readers pause and cause them to react with distaste.I sense that; down the road; there will or should be a national dialog about the received narrative of Northern clean hands/Southern dirty hands; based on the new expositions and explorations of the history of racial relations in America. This book should help facilitate that dialog.
