Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-06-10
Books mentioned on Part One: How Eliza Fraser Survived a Shipwreck and Sparked a Genocide
Robert sits down with Jack O'Brien to tell the story about Eliza Fraser, who survived being shipwrecked thanks to the indigenous people of an island her lies helped destroy. See omnystudio.
Robert Evans discussed The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and others and The Transit of Empire by Jodi A. Byrd.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Dawn of Everything
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow is a sweeping archaeological and anthropological study that challenges conventional narratives about social evolution, inequality, and the origins of human civilization.
Discussed“And it's also like not uh that that book the dawn of everything by David Greyber and David Wangro like they talk about how one of the key freedoms that they used to have that we don't really have as much anymore and don't really value is just the ability to be like well this sucked and like leave town.”
Where to get it
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The Transit of Empire
Discussed“um and cites Jodie Bird's book, The Transit of Empire, which describes this as part of a process that allowed the Empire to quote, "facilitate, justify, and rationalize the state sponsored violence that tear land, resources, and sovereignty from indigenous people."”
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