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 145
... began fleeing to the Ivory Coast and Liberia.275 From an economy that had been grow- ing during the 1950s there was now a slight reduction in real output per person for the decade of the 1960s and a steeper reduction of 2.65 percent per ...
... began fleeing to the Ivory Coast and Liberia.275 From an economy that had been grow- ing during the 1950s there was now a slight reduction in real output per person for the decade of the 1960s and a steeper reduction of 2.65 percent per ...
Page 189
... began to promote ethnic or nationalistic group identity , led by a newly arising Czech intelligentsia , as so much nationalism in other countries around the world has been led by newly arising intelligentsias . " In addition to ...
... began to promote ethnic or nationalistic group identity , led by a newly arising Czech intelligentsia , as so much nationalism in other countries around the world has been led by newly arising intelligentsias . " In addition to ...
Page 242
... began to produce , within their own people , individuals of worldwide stature in mathe- matics , the sciences , and the arts . Indeed , individuals of recognized genius began to appear among the Slavs - the great Russian novelists of ...
... began to produce , within their own people , individuals of worldwide stature in mathe- matics , the sciences , and the arts . Indeed , individuals of recognized genius began to appear among the Slavs - the great Russian novelists of ...
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