Conquests And Cultures
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Author | : Thomas Sowell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2008-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786723009 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2021-08-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1541601386 |
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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 | : William F. McCants |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691151482 |
Download Founding Gods, Inventing Nations Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Thomas Frank |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780226260129 |
Download The Conquest of Cool Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Looks at advertising during the 1960s, focusing on the relationship between the counterculture movement and commerce.
Author | : Thomas Sowell |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2008-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786723157 |
Download Ethnic America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Mark Pagel |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2012-02-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393065871 |
Download Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A fascinating, far-reaching study of how our species' innate capacity for culture altered the course of our social and evolutionary history. A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth—namely, the culture into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that determine which foods we eat, which languages we speak, which people we love and marry, and which people we kill in war. But how did our species develop a mind that is hardwired for culture—and why? Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel tracks this intriguing question through the last 80,000 years of human evolution, revealing how an innate propensity to contribute and conform to the culture of our birth not only enabled human survival and progress in the past but also continues to influence our behavior today. Shedding light on our species’ defining attributes—from art, morality, and altruism to self-interest, deception, and prejudice—Wired for Culture offers surprising new insights into what it means to be human.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Hoover Press |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780817938635 |
Download Race, Culture, and Equality Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Edward H. Spicer |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2015-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816532923 |
Download Cycles of Conquest Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
After more than fifty years, Cycles of Conquest is still one of the best syntheses of more than four centuries of conquest, colonization, and resistance ever published. It explores how ten major Native groups in northern Mexico and what is now the United States responded to political incorporation, linguistic hegemony, community reorganization, religious conversion, and economic integration. Thomas E. Sheridan writes in the new foreword commissioned for this special edition that the book is “monumental in scope and magisterial in presentation.” Cycles of Conquest remains a seminal work, deeply influencing how we have come to view the greater Southwest and its peoples.
Author | : Thomas Sowell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1996-03-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Migrations And Cultures Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Thomas Sowell |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2012-03-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0465031102 |
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The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public opinion in ways that affect the actions of power holders in democratic societies, whether or not those power holders accept the general vision or the particular policies favored by intellectuals. Even government leaders with disdain or contempt for intellectuals have had to bend to the climate of opinion shaped by those intellectuals. Intellectuals and Society not only examines the track record of intellectuals in the things they have advocated but also analyzes the incentives and constraints under which their views and visions have emerged. One of the most surprising aspects of this study is how often intellectuals have been proved not only wrong, but grossly and disastrously wrong in their prescriptions for the ills of society -- and how little their views have changed in response to empirical evidence of the disasters entailed by those views.