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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... rivers and streams.22 The Senegal River has been characterized as " precariously navigable ” —and only during some months , at that.23 Like the Niger , the Senegal is not only subject to large seasonal changes in water flow but also ...
... rivers and streams.22 The Senegal River has been characterized as " precariously navigable ” —and only during some months , at that.23 Like the Niger , the Senegal is not only subject to large seasonal changes in water flow but also ...
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... rivers . Rivers in tropical Africa are wholly dependent on rainfall and that rainfall is itself highly undependable , not only from one season to another but also from one year to the next.26 The term " navigable " can of course mean ...
... rivers . Rivers in tropical Africa are wholly dependent on rainfall and that rainfall is itself highly undependable , not only from one season to another but also from one year to the next.26 The term " navigable " can of course mean ...
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... river in Europe . Not surpris- ingly , the Volga has carried more shipping tonnage than any other Russian river or any river in the former Soviet Union . Russian rivers are often frozen for months each winter , reducing their economic ...
... river in Europe . Not surpris- ingly , the Volga has carried more shipping tonnage than any other Russian river or any river in the former Soviet Union . Russian rivers are often frozen for months each winter , reducing their economic ...
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