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Conquests And Cultures by Thomas Sowell · Booklabria

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First published: 1998
Language: English
Editions: 4

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: History
Ethnology
Imperialism
Cross-cultural studies
Social evolution
History, modern

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