Conquests And Cultures

Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541601383

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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 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.

Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541601383

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Conquests and Cultures by Thomas Sowell Pdf

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 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.

Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786723157

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Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell Pdf

This classic work by the distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups -- the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans.

Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015037326066

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Migrations And Cultures by Thomas Sowell Pdf

nted brings his insight and erudition to bear on one of the key issues of the 1996 presidential campaign--immigration--supplying context, insight, and reason to an inflamed debate that could very well dissolve the social fabric of our country.

Author : William F. McCants
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691151489

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Founding Gods, Inventing Nations by William F. McCants Pdf

From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations traces four thousand years of speculation on the origins of civilization. Investigating a vast range of primary sources, some of which are translated here for the first time, and focusing on the dynamic influence of the Greek, Roman, and Arab conquests of the Near East, William McCants looks at the ways the conquerors and those they conquered reshaped their myths of civilization's origins in response to the social and political consequences of empire. The Greek and Roman conquests brought with them a learned culture that competed with that of native elites. The conquering Arabs, in contrast, had no learned culture, which led to three hundred years of Muslim competition over the cultural orientation of Islam, a contest reflected in the culture myths of that time. What we know today as Islamic culture is the product of this contest, whose protagonists drew heavily on the lore of non-Arab and pagan antiquity. McCants argues that authors in all three periods did not write about civilization's origins solely out of pure antiquarian interest--they also sought to address the social and political tensions of the day. The strategies they employed and the postcolonial dilemmas they confronted provide invaluable context for understanding how authors today use myth and history to locate themselves in the confusing aftermath of empire.

Author : Matthew Jennings
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1572337567

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New Worlds of Violence by Matthew Jennings Pdf

From the early 1500s to the mid-1700s, the American Southeast was the scene of continuous tumult as European powers vied for dominance in the region while waging war on Native American communities. Yet even before Hernando de Soto landed his expeditionary force on the Gulf shores of Florida, Native Americans had created their own “cultures of violence”: sets of ideas about when it was appropriate to use violence and what sorts of violence were appropriate to a given situation. In New Worlds of Violence, Matthew Jennings offers a persuasive new framework for understanding the European–Native American contact period and the conflicts among indigenous peoples that preceded it. This pioneering approach posits that every group present in the Southeast had its own ideas about the use of violence and that these ideas changed over time as they collided with one another. The book starts with the Mississippian era and continues through the successive Spanish and English invasions of the Native South. Jennings argues that the English conquered the Southeast because they were able to force everyone else to adapt to their culture of violence, which, of course, changed over time as well. By 1740, a peculiarly Anglo-American culture of violence was in place that would profoundly influence the expansion of England’s colonies and the eventual southern United States. While Native and African violence were present in this world, they moved in circles defined by the English. New Worlds of Violence concludes by pointing out that long-lasting violence bears long-lasting consequences. An important contribution to the growing body of work on the early Southeast, this book will significantly broaden readers’ understanding of America’s violent past. Matthew Jennings is an assistant professor of history at Macon State College in Macon, Georgia. He is the author of “Violence in a Shattered World” in Mapping the Shatter Zone: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, edited by Robbie Ethridge and Sheri Shuck-Hall. His work has also appeared in The Uniting States, The South Carolina Encyclopedia, A Multicultural History of the United States, and The Encyclopedia of Native American History.

Author : Peter H. Russell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487514488

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Canada's Odyssey by Peter H. Russell Pdf

150 years after Confederation, Canada is known around the world for its social diversity and its commitment to principles of multiculturalism. But the road to contemporary Canada is a winding one, a story of division and conflict as well as union and accommodation. In Canada’s Odyssey, renowned scholar Peter H. Russell provides an expansive, accessible account of Canadian history from the pre-Confederation period to the present day. By focusing on what he calls the "three pillars" of English Canada, French Canada, and Aboriginal Canada, Russell advances an important view of our country as one founded on and informed by "incomplete conquests". It is the very incompleteness of these conquests that have made Canada what it is today, not just a multicultural society but a multinational one. Featuring the scope and vivid characterizations of an epic novel, Canada’s Odyssey is a magisterial work by an astute observer of Canadian politics and history, a perfect book to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Confederation.

Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197537312

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Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by Matthew Restall Pdf

An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented, misrepresented and misunderstood, in the five centuries since Columbus first crossed the Atlantic. This book is a unique and provocative synthesis of ideas and themes that were for generations debated or perpetuated without question in academic and popular circles. The 2003 edition became the foundation stone of a scholarly turn since called The New Conquest History. Each of the book's seven chapters describes one "myth," or one aspect of the Conquest that has been distorted or misrepresented, examines its roots, and explodes its fallacies and misconceptions. Using a wide array of primary and secondary sources, written in a scholarly but readable style, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest explains why Columbus did not set out to prove the world was round, the conquistadors were not soldiers, the native Americans did not take them for gods, Cortés did not have a unique vision of conquest procedure, and handfuls of vastly outnumbered Spaniards did not bring down great empires with stunning rapidity. Conquest realities were more complex--and far more fascinating--than conventional histories have related, and they featured a more diverse cast of protagonists-Spanish, Native American, and African. This updated edition of a key event in the history of the Americas critically examines the book's arguments, how they have held up, and why they prompted the rise of a New Conquest History.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 081793863X

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Race, Culture, and Equality by Anonim Pdf

Features "Race, Culture, and Equality, " an essay written by Thomas Sowell and presented online by the Hoover Institution based at Stanford University. The essay discusses the economic and social impacts of cultural differences among peoples and nations around the world.

Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0465067972

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Race And Culture by Thomas Sowell Pdf

Encompassing more than a decade of research around the globe, this book shows that cultural capital has far more impact than politics, prejudice, or genetics on the social and economic fates of minorities, nations, and civilization.

Author : Laura Ashe,Emily Joan Ward
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1783274166

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Conquests in Eleventh-Century England: 1016, 1066 by Laura Ashe,Emily Joan Ward Pdf

The cataclysmic conquests of the eleventh century are here set together for the first time.

Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780465058723

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Intellectuals and Race by Thomas Sowell Pdf

Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light. The views of individual intellectuals have spanned the spectrum, but the views of intellectuals as a whole have tended to cluster. Indeed, these views have clustered at one end of the spectrum in the early twentieth century and then clustered at the opposite end of the spectrum in the late twentieth century. Moreover, these radically different views of race in these two eras were held by intellectuals whose views on other issues were very similar in both eras. Intellectuals and Race is not, however, a book about history, even though it has much historical evidence, as well as demographic, geographic, economic and statistical evidence-- all of it directed toward testing the underlying assumptions about race that have prevailed at times among intellectuals in general, and especially intellectuals at the highest levels. Nor is this simply a theoretical exercise. The impact of intellectuals' ideas and crusades on the larger society, both past and present, is the ultimate concern. These ideas and crusades have ranged widely from racial theories of intelligence to eugenics to "social justice" and multiculturalism. In addition to in-depth examinations of these and other issues, Intellectuals and Race explores the incentives, the visions and the rationales that drive intellectuals at the highest levels to conclusions that have often turned out to be counterproductive and even disastrous, not only for particular racial or ethnic groups, but for societies as a whole.

Author : Morris De Camp Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Civilization
ISBN : CORNELL:31924014013746

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The Conquest of Culture by Morris De Camp Crawford Pdf

Author : Fred E. Jandt
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0761928995

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Intercultural Communication by Fred E. Jandt Pdf

Contains 36 articles showcasing the development and diversity of intercultural communication theories in countries such as China, Africa, the United States, New Zealand, Mexico, Egypt, and others. Topics discussed include identity and communication, intercultural verbal and nonverbal processes and interactions, relationships, and ethics. -- Publisher description

Author : Maya Jasanoff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400075461

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Edge of Empire by Maya Jasanoff Pdf

In this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate history of imperialism. Jasanoff delves beneath the grand narratives of power, exploitation, and resistance to look at the British Empire through the eyes of the people caught up in it. Written and researched on four continents, Edge of Empire enters a world where people lived, loved, mingled, and identified with one another in ways richer and more complex than previous accounts have led us to believe were possible. And as this book demonstrates, traces of that world remain tangible—and topical—today. An innovative, persuasive, and provocative work of history.