Conquests And Cultures

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."

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Basic Books

Editions

3

Pages

493

ISBN

9780465014002

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