"The Good Kings" and Colonialism
Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney · Kara Cooney and Amber Myers
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Show Notes
EPISODE 73 | Is Kara’s book The Good Kings “colonialist”? Should a non-Egyptian write a critical history of ancient Egyptian pharaohs? Kara and Amber discuss the possible reasoning behind this perspective, and Kara talks about how her book came together and why she set out to write a book calling into question the typical positivist historical narratives surrounding ancient Egypt’s “good kings.”
Can history be apolitical? (Afterlives of Ancient Egypt, Episode #65)
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