Conquests and Cultures: An International History (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for Conquests and Cultures This provocative book ranges over a broad international canvas to consider how conquests have changed the cultural landscape of the worldin many cases, for the better. Beginning with the Roman Empire, the volume devotes a chapter to the British, the Africans, the Slavs, and Western Hemisphere Indians.
Full description- Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
- Published: 30 April 1999
- Format: Paperback 516 pages
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- Categories: Cultural Studies | Migration, Immigration & Emigration | Black & Asian Studies | Economic History | General & World History | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Social & Cultural History | Military History
- ISBN 13: 9780465014002 ISBN 10: 0465014003
- Sales rank: 563,152
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Full description for Conquests and Cultures
This 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 HemisphereConquests 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.
