Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others
By David Day.
Description
In this bold, sweeping book, David Day surveys the ways in which one nation or society has supplanted another, and then sought to justify its occupation -- from the English in Australia and North America, the Normans in England, and the Spanish in Mexico to the Japanese in Korea and the Chinese in Tibet. Human history has been marked by territorial aggression and expansion, an endless cycle of ownership claims by dominant cultures over territory occupied by peoples unable to resist their advance. Day outlines the strategies, violent and subtle, such dominant cultures have used to stake and ...
ISBN(s)
019993133X, 9780199931330
