The Ethnic PhenomenonA gem of a book for scholars in race and ethnic relations and sociobiology. . . . Van den Berghe analyzes various forms that race and ethnic relations have displayed including colonial empires, slavery, middleman minorities, caste systems, and assimilation. The causes and consequences of these systems are brilliantly teased out employing historical and crosscultural examples. Libraries with any work at all on race and ethnic relations or sociobiology should acquire this book. Choice |
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Page 90
... century that they really began to fill it — and not until the mid - 19th century that the expansion process was virtually completed . By the 17th century , European naval and firearms technology had vastly outs- tripped that of the Far ...
... century that they really began to fill it — and not until the mid - 19th century that the expansion process was virtually completed . By the 17th century , European naval and firearms technology had vastly outs- tripped that of the Far ...
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... century . Slavery , then , was an expensive solution , and thus a last resort . It was only developed when natives were unavailable or unsuitable , and that meant basically where they belonged to nomadic or seminomadic societies of hunt ...
... century . Slavery , then , was an expensive solution , and thus a last resort . It was only developed when natives were unavailable or unsuitable , and that meant basically where they belonged to nomadic or seminomadic societies of hunt ...
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... century , the volume of trade tripled to some 2,750,000 . In the 18th century , the " golden age " of the traffic , some 7,000,000 slaves were transported to the Americas . The 19th century marked the first attempts by the British Navy ...
... century , the volume of trade tripled to some 2,750,000 . In the 18th century , the " golden age " of the traffic , some 7,000,000 slaves were transported to the Americas . The 19th century marked the first attempts by the British Navy ...
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Theories and Ideologies | 1 |
The Biology of Nepotism | 15 |
The Ecology | 37 |
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Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka No preview available - 1996 |