Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others

by David Day

Book Overview

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 - for example, the English in Australia and North America, the Normans in England, the Spanish in Mexico, the Japanese in Korea, the Chinese in Tibet. Human history has been marked by territorial aggression and expanion, an endless cycle of ownership claims by dominant cultures over territory occupied...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195340116
• ISBN13: 9780195340112
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"