Conquests And Cultures: An International HistoryThis 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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... British concentration camps in South Africa . Racism often accompanied imperialism , but the British treatment of the Irish and the Boers suggested that a white skin did not provide immunity from the traumas accompanying con- quest ...
... British concentration camps in South Africa . Racism often accompanied imperialism , but the British treatment of the Irish and the Boers suggested that a white skin did not provide immunity from the traumas accompanying con- quest ...
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... British Empire followed rather than caused that economic predominance , and the empire played a remarkably small role in the British economy . Most British exports and invest- ments did not go to its colonies . Europe was the principal ...
... British Empire followed rather than caused that economic predominance , and the empire played a remarkably small role in the British economy . Most British exports and invest- ments did not go to its colonies . Europe was the principal ...
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... British in industrialization . The fact that the key raw materi- als of the industrial age - iron ore and coal - were located very near each other and also near navigable waterways in Britain again ... British themselves . The THE BRITISH 97.
... British in industrialization . The fact that the key raw materi- als of the industrial age - iron ore and coal - were located very near each other and also near navigable waterways in Britain again ... British themselves . The THE BRITISH 97.
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