The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
WINNERS AND LOSERS: THE BALANCE SHEET OF EMPIRE 175 tantism did this, he said, not by easing or abolishing those aspects of the ...
(^176) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS attitudes toward gambling in the early modern period. Both con demned it, but Catholic ...
WINNERS AND LOSERS: THE BALANCE SHEET OF EMPIRE 177 Catholics outnumbered Protestants by more than three to one.^16 Much of this ...
(^178) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Two special characteristics of the Protestants reflect and confirm this link. The first ...
WINNERS AND LOSERS: THE BALANCE SHEET OF EMPIRE 179 pecially pertinent. It is no coincidence that the French crown, always ready ...
180 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS both lay and clerical, viewed Lutherans (all Protestants were then seen as Lutherans), not ...
WINNERS AND LOSERS: THE BALANCE SHEET OF EMPIRE 181 in Madrid, trying vainly to persuade them to accept Harvey's discov ery of ...
(^182) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Never again. That is the nature of thought control in infallible systems: these aim not ...
WINNERS AND LOSERS: THE BALANCE SHEET OF EMPIRE 183 these rebels against Church authority in their scorn for the superstitions o ...
184 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Even with such cleverness, Descartes found it hard to live in a France of Jesuitical subti ...
WINNERS AND LOSERS: THE BALANCE SHEET OF EMPIRE 185 We are told that many Sicilians were sorry to see them go. With reason. What ...
The Nature of Industrial Revolution I n the eighteenth century, a series of inventions transformed the British cotton manufactur ...
THE NATURE OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION^187 moreover, was self-sustaining. In ages past, better living standards had always been fol ...
(^188) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS A long time—sixty years—passed before James Watt invented an en gine with separate con ...
THE NATURE OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION^189 ships shortly after. In all, steam engine development took two hundred years.* Meanwhile ...
(^190) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS and before refiners had techniques to deal with coke-smelted pig (Henry Cort, patents o ...
THE NATURE OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION^191 —the invention of the flyer (the Saxon wheel), which added twist by winding the yarn at ...
(^192) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS strokes of a press and turn out penny tabloids and cheap novels by the tens and hundred ...
THE NATURE OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION^193 Then in 1787 Edmund Cartwright built the first successful power loom, which gradually tr ...
(^194) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS times—of an era of quicker, more potent innovation and leapfrog catch-up. Even so, the ...
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