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 139
... tion , which was 79,000 tons in the mid - 1960s , fell to about 50,000 tons by the early 1980s . Over a period of a decade , cashew production fell by more than 50 percent and sisal production by nearly 60 per- cent . The industrial ...
... tion , which was 79,000 tons in the mid - 1960s , fell to about 50,000 tons by the early 1980s . Over a period of a decade , cashew production fell by more than 50 percent and sisal production by nearly 60 per- cent . The industrial ...
Page 166
... tion in general was not as great in Brazil as in the contemporary United States , the historic differences within the African - ancestry population of Brazil were similar and similarly persistent , not only as regards residential ...
... tion in general was not as great in Brazil as in the contemporary United States , the historic differences within the African - ancestry population of Brazil were similar and similarly persistent , not only as regards residential ...
Page 216
... tion of the czarist empire and the last census of the Soviet Union in 1989 showed that Russians were not quite 51 percent of the popula- tion of the U.S.S.R.239 This was not a country with a numerically pre- ponderant " majority " and a ...
... tion of the czarist empire and the last census of the Soviet Union in 1989 showed that Russians were not quite 51 percent of the popula- tion of the U.S.S.R.239 This was not a country with a numerically pre- ponderant " majority " and a ...
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