Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others
The history of the world has been the history of peoples on the move, as
they occupy new lands and establish their claims over them. Almost
invariably, this has meant the violent dispossession of the previous
inhabitants. Whether it is the Normans in England, the Chinese in Tibet,
the Germans in Poland, the Indonesians in West Papua, or the British
and Americans in North America, the claiming of other people’s lands and
the supplanting of one people by another has shaped the history of
societies from the ancient pastto the present day. David Day tells the
story of how this happened – the ways in which invaders have triumphed
and justified conquest which, as he shows is a bloody and often
prolonged process that can last centuries. And while each individual
conquest is ultimately unique, nevertheless they often share a number
ofqualities, from the re-naming of the conquered land and the invention
of myth to justify what has taken place, to the exploitation of the
conquered resources and people, and even to the outright slaughter of
the original inhabitants. Above all, as Day shows in this hugely bold
and ambitious book, conquest can have deep and long-lasting consequences
– for the conquered, the conquerors, and for the wider course of world
history.
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| Map partitioned Macedonia |
Taken from the book “Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others” by David Day, Published by Oxford University Press, 2008.
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