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 101
... continent is that , despite being much larger than the continent of Europe , its coastline is shorter than the European coastline - indeed , shorter than the coast- line of any other continent , even though Africa is second only to Asia ...
... continent is that , despite being much larger than the continent of Europe , its coastline is shorter than the European coastline - indeed , shorter than the coast- line of any other continent , even though Africa is second only to Asia ...
Page 102
... continent , as well as the two largest cities on the continent , Cairo and Alexandria . Except for the Nile , Africa's rivers that are even seasonally naviga- ble tend to be concentrated in equatorial West Africa , 13 which has pro ...
... continent , as well as the two largest cities on the continent , Cairo and Alexandria . Except for the Nile , Africa's rivers that are even seasonally naviga- ble tend to be concentrated in equatorial West Africa , 13 which has pro ...
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... continent is " cursed with a mesa form which converts nearly every river into a plunging torrent . " 34 However impenetrable much of the interior of sub - Saharan Africa may have been to large , ocean - going ships , the continent's ...
... continent is " cursed with a mesa form which converts nearly every river into a plunging torrent . " 34 However impenetrable much of the interior of sub - Saharan Africa may have been to large , ocean - going ships , the continent's ...
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