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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... population by 1977. Poland , whose population was 69 per- cent Polish in 1931 , had a 97 percent Polish population in 1991.1 Czechoslovakia , however , despite its mass expulsions of Germans , had the proportion of Czechs in its ...
... population by 1977. Poland , whose population was 69 per- cent Polish in 1931 , had a 97 percent Polish population in 1991.1 Czechoslovakia , however , despite its mass expulsions of Germans , had the proportion of Czechs in its ...
Page 257
... population of the hemisphere before the first white men arrived remains a matter of conjecture and controversy . One scholar estimated the pre - Columbian population of the hemisphere as low as 8.4 million , while another estimate put ...
... population of the hemisphere before the first white men arrived remains a matter of conjecture and controversy . One scholar estimated the pre - Columbian population of the hemisphere as low as 8.4 million , while another estimate put ...
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... populations . 189 Indians and mestizos were each about 40 per- cent of the population of Ecuador during the 1980s , with the remain- der being white or black.190 In Colombia , an estimated 50 percent of the population was mestizo , 25 ...
... populations . 189 Indians and mestizos were each about 40 per- cent of the population of Ecuador during the 1980s , with the remain- der being white or black.190 In Colombia , an estimated 50 percent of the population was mestizo , 25 ...
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