History of Portugal/moorish Rule and The Reconquista 711%e2%80%931249

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    Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
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    There is a history in all men’s lives,
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    Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We’re no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.
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