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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... rule on the existing independent republics that had been established by white settlers of predominantly Dutch ancestry , but who were no longer connected with the government of the Netherlands . The impact of European conquerors on ...
... rule on the existing independent republics that had been established by white settlers of predominantly Dutch ancestry , but who were no longer connected with the government of the Netherlands . The impact of European conquerors on ...
Page 135
... rule in Tanganyika lasted until World War I , when a British naval blockade and military invasion brought control of the colony to the United Kingdom . The economic and cultural impact of Germans on Tanganyika was considerable , despite ...
... rule in Tanganyika lasted until World War I , when a British naval blockade and military invasion brought control of the colony to the United Kingdom . The economic and cultural impact of Germans on Tanganyika was considerable , despite ...
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... rule . The Germans conscripted tens of thousands of porters in East Africa and the British 200,000 . Death rates ... rule . Exports from Tan- ganyika increased more than ten - fold between 1883 and 1913.223 Between 1913 ( under German ...
... rule . The Germans conscripted tens of thousands of porters in East Africa and the British 200,000 . Death rates ... rule . Exports from Tan- ganyika increased more than ten - fold between 1883 and 1913.223 Between 1913 ( under German ...
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