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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... empire , the British became the world's largest slaveholders in their Western Hemisphere colonies in the Caribbean ... Empire but also among peoples who were never part of that empire . In short , Britain shared the moral evils of ...
... empire , the British became the world's largest slaveholders in their Western Hemisphere colonies in the Caribbean ... Empire but also among peoples who were never part of that empire . In short , Britain shared the moral evils of ...
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... Empire did estab- lish the rule of law in an area previously devastated and disorganized by warfare and among people previously living under the arbitrary caprices of their own nobles . With these nobles forced to flee in the wake of ...
... Empire did estab- lish the rule of law in an area previously devastated and disorganized by warfare and among people previously living under the arbitrary caprices of their own nobles . With these nobles forced to flee in the wake of ...
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... Empire and its European rivals shifted . The rise of the Habsburg Empire as a power in Central Europe and of the Russian Empire in Eastern Europe brought formidable new adversaries to the fore , and the rise of Venice as a naval power ...
... Empire and its European rivals shifted . The rise of the Habsburg Empire as a power in Central Europe and of the Russian Empire in Eastern Europe brought formidable new adversaries to the fore , and the rise of Venice as a naval power ...
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