Full name: Conquests And Cultures: An International History

Author: Thomas Sowell Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Economics, Politics, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780465014002 0465014003

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. Similar books: Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell Millennium by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson The Human Web by J. R. McNeill The Outline of History by H. G. Wells World History For Dummies by Peter Haugen The Rise of the West by William H. McNeill A Short History of the World by J. M. Roberts A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel After Tamerlane by John Darwin 1688 by John E. Wills Eyewitness to History by John Carey Civilization by Roger Osborne History by Adam Hart-Davis Asimov's Chronology of the World by Isaac Asimov The Lessons of History by Will Durant The Mind and the Market by Jerry Z. Muller How to Change the World by Eric Hobsbawm The Red Flag by David Priestland Race And Culture by Thomas Sowell