Conquests And Cultures: An International HistoryBasic Books, 1998 M05 8 - 512 páginas This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around the Pacific rim. Its purpose has been to try to understand the role of cultural differences within nations and between nations, today and over centuries of history, in shaping the economic and social fates of peoples and of whole civilizations. Focusing on four major cultural areas(that of the British, the Africans (including the African diaspora), the Slavs of Eastern Europe, and the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere— Conquests and Cultures reveals patterns that encompass not only these peoples but others and help explain the role of cultural evolution in economic, social, and political development. |
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THE BRITISH | 22 |
THE AFRICANS | 99 |
THE SLAVS | 174 |
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agriculture American areas Asian Aztecs Balkans became began Britain British Cambridge Central Asia Cherokees civilization colonial conquered conquerors conquest continent countries cultural Czech declined early East Central Europe Eastern Europe economic edited Empire England English enslaved ethnic European example foreign G. M. Trevelyan Gann and Peter geographical German Ghana groups human capital Ibid immigrants imperial Incas independence Indians indigenous industrial Irish Iroquois Islamic Ivory Coast L. H. Gann land language later living major Maya ment Middle military million nations Nigeria nineteenth century North America Ottoman Ottoman Empire Oxford percent Peter Duignan political population produced racial regions Robert role Roman Roman Britain Russian Scotland Scots Scottish settlers Slave Trade slavery Slavic Slavs social societies Soviet Union Spaniards Spanish T. C. Smout Thomas Sowell tion tribes twentieth century Ukraine Ukrainian United University Press Wales Welsh West Africa Western Hemisphere York