Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others

Day, David

ISBN 10: 0195340116 / ISBN 13: 9780195340112

Editore: Oxford University Press, 2008

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• Titolo: Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195340116
• ISBN 13: 9780195340112
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: New
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: New

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Riassunto

Ranging from the ancient Greeks in Byzantium to the Japanese in Korea and the Chinese in Tibet, a sweeping history of conquest through the ages examines how the seizure of other people's lands has shaped global history and discusses how invaders have justified their actions, the impact on the conquered and the conqueror, and the exploitation of resources and people.

Informazioni sull?autore

David Day has been a research fellow at Clare College in Cambridge and a Visiting Professor at University College Dublin, the University of Aberdeen and the Centre for Pacific and American Studies at the University of Tokyo. He is currently a research associate at La Trobe University in Melbourne, where he is working on a history of Antarctica. His many books include best-selling histories of the Second World War, prize-winning biographies, and a study of Winston Churchill and Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies that has been made into a television documentary. He has also written a highly-praised history of Australia, Claiming a Continent. His books have won or been short-listed for major literary prizes and have been translated into several languages.