The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
GOLCONDA^155 silk (from Bengal), indigo, and saltpeter;* also pepper, while conced ing the cosdier, rarer spices to the Dutch. ...
(^156) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS beyond diem. More, they found themselves well placed to penetrate and pillage a far ric ...
GOLCONDA^157 The tyranny of these Muslim rulers—no better or worse than that of Hindu despots—was aggravated by the measures tak ...
(^158) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS as close and private as they can, lest the Moghul's Exchequer shou'd be made their Trea ...
GOLCONDA^159 This broader purpose did not aim at monopoly as in Indonesia. The EIC was ready to let others into the Indian marke ...
160 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS sore of commercial competition. The nawab took badly to this: Who were these British merch ...
GOLCONDA^161 the Madré de Deus—a sum that would amount nowadays to more than $1 billion.* Mir Jafar hardly cared. The money woul ...
162 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS and held out ducal fortunes... for the lucky few."^22 Luck, obviously, was only part of th ...
GOLCONDA^163 portant changes in the constitution of the East India Company. The new arrangements, which entailed closer state ov ...
(^164) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS and correspondence to and from Europe.^25 These records tell therefore only the outside ...
GOLCONDA^165 Food, Income, and Standard of Living What was the condition of the "mass" in pre-British India? European travelers ...
166 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS had taken up residence in Calcutta to benefit from the company's protection and had suffer ...
GOLCONDA^167 deceit: "... this man, in the other parts of his life an honourable English gendeman and soldier, was no sooner mat ...
Winners and Losers: The Balance Sheet of Empire The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for t ...
WINNERS AND LOSERS: THE BALANCE SHEET OF EMPIRE 169 poor. This process of selection actually began much earlier, during the age ...
(^170) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS American is hard to say. Greater population densities and frequency of contagion? The c ...
WINNERS AND LOSERS: THE BALANCE SHEET OF EMPIRE 171 riod made possible a substantial North American contribution to the food sup ...
(^172) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS mittent enemy; for provisions, many of them bought from the Dutch and Flemish intermitt ...
WINNERS AND LOSERS: THE BALANCE SHEET OF EMPIRE 173 Spain, in other words, became (or stayed) poor because it had too much money ...
(^174) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS that was a negative) rather than on depletable minerals. They built on work. Europe's s ...
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