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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... spreading to militarily vulnerable areas . Ancient and irre- placeable manuscripts went up in flames when illiterate barbarian invaders or marauders set fire to libraries for the sheer pleasure of destruction . Roman conquerors spread a ...
... spreading to militarily vulnerable areas . Ancient and irre- placeable manuscripts went up in flames when illiterate barbarian invaders or marauders set fire to libraries for the sheer pleasure of destruction . Roman conquerors spread a ...
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... spread more effective economic methods to new lands or peoples . In ancient times , sedentary agriculture was an epoch - making advance beyond seeking food by hunting or gathering the spontaneous products of nature , or by transient ...
... spread more effective economic methods to new lands or peoples . In ancient times , sedentary agriculture was an epoch - making advance beyond seeking food by hunting or gathering the spontaneous products of nature , or by transient ...
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... spread from Western Europe to Eastern Europe.32 Textiles were imported into Eastern Europe from the west because the ... spread rapidly across Western Europe in the first half of the nine- teenth century , they tended to spread later ...
... spread from Western Europe to Eastern Europe.32 Textiles were imported into Eastern Europe from the west because the ... spread rapidly across Western Europe in the first half of the nine- teenth century , they tended to spread later ...
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