| Peoples and Empires: A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present Contributor(s): Pagden, Anthony (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812967615 ISBN-13: 9780812967616 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2003 Annotation: Written by one of the world's foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires--the Roman, the Spanish, the French, the British--and their colonies, and the back-and-forth between "us" and "them," culture and nature, civilization and barbarism, the center and the periphery. It's the history of how conquerors justified conquest, and how colonists and the colonized changed each other beyond all recognition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General - History | World - General - Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism |
| Dewey: 909 |
| LCCN: 2003269730 |
| Series: Modern Library Chronicles |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.2" W x 8.16" (0.41 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Written by one of the world's foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires--the Roman, the Spanish, the French, the British--and their colonies, and the back-and-forth between "us" and "them," culture and nature, civilization and barbarism, the center and the periphery. It's the history of how conquerors justified conquest, and how colonists and the colonized changed each other beyond all recognition. |