Martin Bernal
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Martin Gardiner Bernal was a British scholar of modern Chinese political history. He was a Professor of Government and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. He is best known for his work Black Athena, a controversial work which argues that the culture, language, and political structure of Ancient Greece contained substantial influences from Egypt and Syria-Palestine.
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- Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (1989) (708)
- Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985 (1987) (215)
- Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (Volume 2: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence) (1987) (73)
- The fabrication of ancient Greece, 1785-1985 (1987) (57)
- Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985 (1987) (43)
- Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics (2001) (37)
- Animadversions on the Origins of Western Science (1992) (36)
- Chinese Intellectuals and the Revolution of 1911. The Birth of Modern Chinese Radicalism. (1970) (31)
- Phoenician Politics and Egyptian Justice in Ancient Greece (1993) (24)
- Chinese Socialism to 1907. (1976) (23)
- African Athena?@@@Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 1, the Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985.@@@Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 2, The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence. (1992) (21)
- The archaeological and documentary evidence (1991) (19)
- Black Athena (2019) (14)
- On the Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean before 1400 B. C. (1987) (11)
- The Use and Abuse of Black Athena@@@Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Volume 1: The Frabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985. (1992) (9)
- THE NGHE-TINH SOVIET MOVEMENT 1930–1931 (1981) (9)
- Black Athena: The African and Levantine Roots of Greece (1985) (8)
- Liu Shih-p'ei and National Essence (1976) (8)
- The Afrocentric Interpretation of History: Bernal Replies to Lefkowitz. (1996) (7)
- An Interview with Martin Bernal (1993) (6)
- Becoming Worthy Ancestors: Archive, public deliberation and identity in South Africa (2011) (6)
- Black Athena. I. The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985 (1989) (6)
- Black Athena 2: History without Rules@@@Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Volume 2: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence. (1992) (6)
- The image of Ancient Greece as a tool for colonialism and European hegemony (2020) (4)
- Response to Robert Palter (1994) (4)
- Geography of a Life (2012) (4)
- Simulating Prehistoric Ethnicity. The case of Patagonian hunter-gatherers. (2013) (4)
- Race, Class, and Gender in the Formation of the Aryan Model of Greek Origins (1995) (3)
- Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilation Volume III: The Linguistic Evidence (2020) (3)
- Responses to Critical Reviews of Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. Volume 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985 (2016) (3)
- Nonviolence in the Nasa people, from northern Cauca: relation between theory and specific experience (2016) (2)
- On “Robbing Native American Cultures” (1998) (2)
- Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization II: The Archaeological and Linguistic Evidence (1992) (2)
- Book Review:Freedom in the Making of Western Culture. Orlando Patterson (1992) (1)
- Cadmean Letters: The Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean and Further West before 1400 B. C.@@@Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet (1992) (1)
- Mapping the Landscape of Creative Industries Research in Scotland (2017) (1)
- Reviews of Books:History in Black: African-Americans in Search of an Ancient Past Yaacov Shavit (2003) (1)
- Maps and Charts (2020) (1)
- There’s a Mountain in the Way: A Review of Martin West’s The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (2001) (1)
- The Chinese Family in the Communist Revolution. By C. K. Yang. pp. xii + 246. Appendix and Reference Notes. The Technology Press, Massachusetts Institute fo Technology, 1959. Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. Price 48s. (1961) (0)
- Greek Words and Names with Proposed Afroasiatic Etymologies (2020) (0)
- 22 Athena and Athens (2020) (0)
- Appendix. Were the Philistines Greek? (2020) (0)
- For the People ([Martin] Bernal I & II) (2015) (0)
- Passion and Politics: A Reply to Guy Rogers (2001) (0)
- 10 Major Egyptian Terms in Greek: Part 1 (2020) (0)
- Can We Be Fair?: A Reply to John Baines (2001) (0)
- 11 Major Egyptian Terms in Greek: Part 2 (2020) (0)
- Was There a Greek Scientific Miracle?: A Reply to Robert Palter (2001) (0)
- 14 More Semitic Loans into Greek (2020) (0)
- 16 Semantic Clusters: Warfare, Hunting and Shipping (2020) (0)
- Chapter 3. The Triumph of Egypt in the 17th and 18th Centuries (2020) (0)
- Chapter 10. The Post-War Situation: The Return to the Broad Aryan Model, 1945–85 (2020) (0)
- 20 Geographical Features and Place-Names (2020) (0)
- Socrates’ ancestry in question (1994) (0)
- How Did the Egyptian Way of Death Reach Greece?: A Reply to Emily Vermeule (2001) (0)
- Who Is Qualified to Write Greek History?: A Reply to Lawrence A. Tritle (2001) (0)
- Britain and the People's Republic of China, 1949–1974 . By Boardman Robert. (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1976. Pp. 210. $23.50.) (1978) (0)
- Chapter 9. The Final Solution of the Phoenician Problem, 1885–1945 (2020) (0)
- Transcription and Phonetics (2020) (0)
- The British Utilitarians, Imperialism, and the Fall of the Ancient Model (2001) (0)
- The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander, and: L'Orient, mirage grec: L'Orient du mythe et de l'epopee (review) (2003) (0)
- 15 Some Egyptian and Semitic Semantic Clusters in Greek (2020) (0)
- Accuracy and/or Coherence?: A Reply to Robert Norton, Robert Palter, and Josine Blok (2001) (0)
- 3 Afroasiatic, Egyptian and Semitic (2020) (0)
- Chapter 8. The Rise and Fall of the Phoenicians, 1830–85 (2020) (0)
- Greece Is Not Nubia: A Reply to David O’Connor (2001) (0)
- All Not Quiet on the Wellesley Front: A Review of Not Out of Africa (2001) (0)
- Chapter 2. Egyptian Wisdom and Greek Transmission from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance (2020) (0)
- 17 Semantic Clusters: Society, Politics, Law and Abstraction (2020) (0)
- MYTHS , MODELS , AND FANTASIES (0)
- Akhenaten, Moses and Oedipus (2006) (0)
- Three Books on Vietnam (1969) (0)
- 12 Sixteen Minor Roots (2020) (0)
- 8. Chinese Intellectuals and the West, 1872–1949 . By Y. C. Wang. Chapel Hill: North Carolina University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 557. 80s. (1967) (0)
- 5 The Greek Language in the Mediterranean Context: Part 1, Phonology (2020) (0)
- Response to Sturt Manning, 'Frames of Reference for the Past: Some thoughts on Bernal, Truth and Reality (1990) (0)
- 2. The Impact of Blackness on the Formation of Classics (2013) (0)
- Robert Drews. The coming of the Greeks: Indo-European conquests in the Aegean and the Near East . 257 pages, numerous figures. 1988. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press; ISBN 0-671-03592-X hardback. (1990) (0)
- Response to Jonathan Hall, 'Black Athena: A sheep in Wolf's Clothing? (1990) (0)
- 9 Greek Borrowings from Egyptian Prefixes, Including the Definite Articles (2020) (0)
- Sign, Symbol, Script: An Exhibition on the Origins of Writing and the Alphabet (1985) (0)
- Party Politics in Republican China (The Kuomintang, 1912–1924) . By T. Yu George. University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles; and Cambridge University Press: London, 1966. Pp. xv + 203, $6.00, 48s. (1967) (0)
- Basil Davidson: a personal appreciation (1994) (0)
- One or Several Revolutions?: A Review of Walters Burkert’s The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (2001) (0)
- 18 Religious Terminology (2020) (0)
- Conceptual schemes of life-cycle spatial structures (2010) (0)
- Chapter 5. Romantic Linguistics: The Rise of India and the Fall of Egypt, 1740–1880 (2020) (0)
- 7 The Greek Language in the Mediterranean Context: Part 3, Lexicon (2020) (0)
- Ta Ta Tan Tan: The Inside Story of Communist China . By Valentin Chu. [London: Allen & Unwin, 1964; New York: W. W. Norton, 1963. 320 pp. $4.95.] (1966) (0)
- NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS (1969) (0)
- Books Received (2002) (0)
- 1 Historical Linguistics and the Image of Ancient Greek (2020) (0)
- Li Ta-chao and the origins of Chinese Marxism. By Maurice Meisner. (Harvard East Asian Series, 27.) pp. xvii, 326. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1967. 40s. (1968) (0)
- Chapter 4. Hostilities to Egypt in the 18th Century (2020) (0)
- Egyptians In The Hellenistic Woodpile: Were Hekataios Of Abdera And Diodoros Sikeliotes Right To See Egypt In The Origins Of Greece? (2008) (0)
- Vietnam: A Primer on the War (1968) (0)
- Politically correct: Mythologies of neoconservatism in the American academy (1997) (0)
- The linguistic evidence (2006) (0)
- The Tzu-yu tang and Tai Chi t'ao, 1912–1913 (1967) (0)
- Chapter 6. Hellenomania, I: The Fall of the Ancient Model, 1790–1830 (2020) (0)
- Greek Art Without Egypt, Hamlet Without the Prince: A Review of Sarah Morris’s Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art (2001) (0)
- 6 The Greek Language in the Mediterranean Context: Part 2, Morphological and Syntactical Developments (2020) (0)
- Just Smoke and Mirrors?: A Reply to Edith Hall (2001) (0)
- 8 Phonetic Developments in Egyptian, West Semitic and Greek over the Last Three Millennia BCE, as Reflected in Lexical Borrowings (2020) (0)
- Chapter 1. The Ancient Model in Antiquity (2020) (0)
- Making Choices : " Dangerously Female " Rereading in Sula Charlotte (2010) (0)
- 19 Divine Names: Gods, Mythical Creatures, Heroes (2020) (0)
- An Introduction to Chinese Politics.@@@Ideology and Politics in Contemporary China. (1974) (0)
- The Nien Army and their Guerrilla Warfare, 1851–1868 . By S. Y. Teng. pp. 254. 4 maps and 4 illustrations. Mouton & Co., La Haye, Paris, 1961. (1963) (0)
- 2 The “Nostratic” and “Euroasiatic” Hyper-and Super-Families (2020) (0)
- Transcriptions and Phonetics (2019) (0)
- Letters to the Editor (1993) (0)
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