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Cambridge professor and renowned historian Anthony Pagden covers a vast subject in a compact package with Peoples and Empires. This wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating work examines the origins and history of the West with terse, efficient prose. With a captivating narration by Robert O’Keefe, listeners will find this work enjoyable and utterly absorbing.
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“Although responsible for horrific human suffering and the inevitable curtailment of certain freedoms, European empires often became bastions of cultural diversity and afforded both the colonists and the colonized unique educational, economic, and social opportunities that might otherwise never have been enjoyed. This engrossing chronicle of the history of European imperialism mirrors, to a certain extent, the history of modern Western civilization.”
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