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Amanda Foreman

British Historian

Born: 1968

Book People War Women Years You

Related authors: A. J. P. Taylor Antony Beevor Arnold J. Toynbee Arthur Helps C. Northcote Parkinson Linda Colley Norman Davies Simon Schama

The narrative of 'man the hunter' presupposes that men provided the nutrition, invented the tools, and established social organization and communication through the hunt, and that women were just sitting by the fire waiting for evolution to drag them out by the hair in the 1960s in order to participate. Amanda Foreman

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Foot-binding, which started out as a fashionable impulse, became an expression of Han identity after the Mongols invaded China in 1279. The fact that it was only performed by Chinese women turned the practice into a kind of shorthand for ethnic pride. Amanda Foreman

When Napoleon abdicated in April 1814, Britain expected that America would soon lose heart and surrender, too. From then on, London's chief aims were to bring a swift conclusion to the war and capture as much territory as possible in order to gain the best advantage in the inevitable peace talks. Amanda Foreman

War Best Surrender Peace Heart Inevitable Lose Too Aims April Possible Would London Advantage Soon Napoleon Talks Territory Conclusion Were Chief America Expected Order Gain Then Much Swift Capture Bring Britain

For America, 1812 became the war in which it had finally gained its independence. For Britain, 1812 became the skirmish it had contained, while winning the real war against its greatest nemesis, Napoleon. Amanda Foreman

War Independence Finally Winning Had Contained Napoleon Became Greatest Real America Real War Which Gained While Against Britain

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