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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... economic development , its evolution and elaboration were accompanied by an erosion of government control over the specific terms and conditions of economic transactions , which may have been equally crucial . In Britain , as elsewhere ...
... economic development , its evolution and elaboration were accompanied by an erosion of government control over the specific terms and conditions of economic transactions , which may have been equally crucial . In Britain , as elsewhere ...
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... economic matters and a hostility toward autonomous economic institutions and toward eco- nomically productive minorities in their own countries . The specific kinds of education received affect not only technologi- cal and economic ...
... economic matters and a hostility toward autonomous economic institutions and toward eco- nomically productive minorities in their own countries . The specific kinds of education received affect not only technologi- cal and economic ...
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... Economic Initiative and African Cash Farming : Pre - Colonial Origins and Early Colonial Developments , " ibid . , pp . 296–297 ; Simon E. Katzenellenbogen , " The Miner's Frontier , Transport and General Economic Development , ” ibid ...
... Economic Initiative and African Cash Farming : Pre - Colonial Origins and Early Colonial Developments , " ibid . , pp . 296–297 ; Simon E. Katzenellenbogen , " The Miner's Frontier , Transport and General Economic Development , ” ibid ...
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