Conquests and Cultures, Thomas Sowell
Conquests and Cultures, Thomas Sowell
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Conquests and Cultures
An International History

Author: Thomas Sowell

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Unabridged: 16 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/19/2010

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

In Thomas Sowell's Conquests and Cultures audiobook, the nationally bestselling author helps explain the role of cultural evolution and warfare in shaping the destinies of the world's civilizations.This book is the culmination of fifteen years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice. Its purpose has been to try to understand the role of cultural differences within nations and between nations, today and over the centuries of history, in shaping the economic and social fates of peoples and of whole civilizations. Focusing on four major cultural areasthat of the British, the Africans (including the African Diaspora), the Slavs of Eastern Europe, and the indigenous peoples of the Western HemisphereConquests and Cultures reveals patterns that encompass not only these people but others and helps explain the role of cultural evolution in economic, social, and political development.

About Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell has taught economics at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst, and other academic institutions, and his Basic Economics has been translated into six languages. He is currently a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford University. He has been published in both academic journals and such popular media as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fortune and writes a syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vaishali on October 26, 2014

WOW ! Ok, stop whatever you are doing, grab this book and read the chapter on the Aztecs. My good God. Enough said. This is one of the few history books (possibly the only one) that I will revisit numerous times because of its copious amount of info and absolute clarity. Sowell is a true scholar who......more

Goodreads review by Paul on August 24, 2014

I finished this book a couple weeks ago. I'll have more to say about it in the future. A must-read for all victims of the American Teachers Union.......more

Goodreads review by John on November 12, 2014

I listened to this audiobook a few years ago while riding up to Washington DC, it would definitely be worth listening to again. The primary thing I still remember is how Sowell didn't only write about the bad and the ugly, but also about good consequences of Empires. He says we should not do a "Cost......more

Goodreads review by S.M.Y on November 23, 2023

A great ending to Sowell's trilogy; Conquests and Cultures reinforced Sowell's ideas firmly that it is the cultural factors, or "human capital" that determines the rise and falls of nations, and people. In earlier volumes, Sowell strived to show that there's enduring pattern within groups of people,......more

Goodreads review by Kent on July 22, 2008

If you want to reexamine some of your assumptions about civilizations and cultures replacing one another (if you think about such things at all), this is a good book for you. Sowell, as he is so very able to do, explicates the factors that suit particular cultures for survival at particular times, e......more

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