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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... Indians began shakily . However , they were able to negotiate a treaty in 1621 with some of the local Indians , though apparently under the mis- apprehension that they had gained peace with all the Indians . 129 Although classic ...
... Indians began shakily . However , they were able to negotiate a treaty in 1621 with some of the local Indians , though apparently under the mis- apprehension that they had gained peace with all the Indians . 129 Although classic ...
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... Indians . The Cree Indians , for example , acquired more than 10,000 firearms from the Hudson Bay Company between 1670 and 1689 , not counting the additional firearms they were getting in trade with the French.135 Those Indians in ...
... Indians . The Cree Indians , for example , acquired more than 10,000 firearms from the Hudson Bay Company between 1670 and 1689 , not counting the additional firearms they were getting in trade with the French.135 Those Indians in ...
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... Indians , was equally real , even if often unrealistic in its goals and methods . The first American program for the preferential hiring of minorities began in the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the early nineteenth century , where Indians ...
... Indians , was equally real , even if often unrealistic in its goals and methods . The first American program for the preferential hiring of minorities began in the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the early nineteenth century , where Indians ...
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