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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Page 153
... Islamic Countries Although the Islamic countries of the Middle East and North Africa imported more slaves from sub - Saharan Africa than did the European off - shoot nations of the Western Hemisphere , 320 there are in these Moslem ...
... Islamic Countries Although the Islamic countries of the Middle East and North Africa imported more slaves from sub - Saharan Africa than did the European off - shoot nations of the Western Hemisphere , 320 there are in these Moslem ...
Page 154
... Islamic nations , European slaves became scarcer in the Islamic lands to which they had once been sent in great numbers . Their importation was drasti- cally reduced in the early decades of the nineteenth century , when czarist Russia ...
... Islamic nations , European slaves became scarcer in the Islamic lands to which they had once been sent in great numbers . Their importation was drasti- cally reduced in the early decades of the nineteenth century , when czarist Russia ...
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... Islamic countries were over water , but this meant risking interception by the British Navy , and that in turn often meant that slaves were thrown overboard to drown rather than being allowed to remain on board to be discovered as ...
... Islamic countries were over water , but this meant risking interception by the British Navy , and that in turn often meant that slaves were thrown overboard to drown rather than being allowed to remain on board to be discovered as ...
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