Conquests and cultures
an international history
1st ed.
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Word Count
123,250 words, Guess
Page Count
493 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL701807M
- ISBN-100465013996
- OCLC Control Number38130578
- OCLC Control Numberconquestsculture0000sowe
- Library of Congress Control Number97050290
and 2 more
- LibraryThing91076
- Goodreads568856
Classifications
- DDC325/.32
- LCCCB481 .S58 1998
Description
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.
First Sentence
"We do not live in the past, but the past in us."
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