Poisoned Relations Tania Broadley and demonstrating their continuing relevance

and demonstrating their continuing relevance today

The book has been written with a broad audience in mind

Native America knows something about cultivating resilience and resisting darkness

Jews must reassert the basic principles of their ancient tradition

From George Washington to Barack Obama

Poisoned Relations Tania Broadley and demonstrating their continuing relevanceIlluminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic world By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed significantly different cultural idioms for and understandings of poison. Europeans considered poison a gendered "weapon of the weak" while Africans viewed it as an abuse by the powerful. Though distinct, both idioms centered on fraught power