Author: Olivette Otele

Title: African Europeans: An Untold History

Binding: Hardcover

Number Of Pages: 304

Release Date: 2021-05-04

Details: A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent

One of the Best History Books of 2021 - Smithsonian
Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans" and those called "Europeans." She gives equal attention to the most prominent figures-like Alessandro de Medici, the first duke of Florence thought to have been born to a free African woman in a Roman village-and the untold stories-like the lives of dual-heritage families in Europe's coastal trading towns.

African Europeans is a landmark celebration of this integral, vibrantly complex slice of European history, and will redefine the field for years to come.

EAN: 9781541619678

Package Dimensions: Height: 9.55 Inches, Length: 6.4 Inches, Weight: 1.1 Pounds, Width: 1.3 Inches

Languages: en