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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... half a million but , half a century later , 42 percent were living in communities of 50,000 or more , including 20 percent in communities of half a million or more . Per capita income in Scotland was nearly as high as that of the United ...
... half a million but , half a century later , 42 percent were living in communities of 50,000 or more , including 20 percent in communities of half a million or more . Per capita income in Scotland was nearly as high as that of the United ...
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... half its previous size and its vol- ume of water to much less than half.315 If czarist conquest was disruptive to the traditional societies of Cen- tral Asia , Communist rule was traumatic . The civil war period follow- ing the ...
... half its previous size and its vol- ume of water to much less than half.315 If czarist conquest was disruptive to the traditional societies of Cen- tral Asia , Communist rule was traumatic . The civil war period follow- ing the ...
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... half a million people , fewer than 10 percent of whom had been born in France.358 During the war itself , mil- lions of people from Eastern Europe were sent to Germany to work as slave laborers - three and a half million Poles alone by ...
... half a million people , fewer than 10 percent of whom had been born in France.358 During the war itself , mil- lions of people from Eastern Europe were sent to Germany to work as slave laborers - three and a half million Poles alone by ...
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