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Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources, Combined Volume, Second Edition QUOTES

Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources, Combined Volume, Second Edition QUOTES

1 " A rich and mature life involves opening up to a wider world. If we base our understanding of life only on what we personally experience, we are impoverished indeed. "

― , Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources, Combined Volume, Second Edition

2 " Osei Bonsu, the powerful king of the West African state of Asante, was puzzled as to why the British would no longer buy his slaves. "If they think it bad now," he asked a local British representative in 1820, "why did they think it good before? "

― , Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources, Combined Volume, Second Edition