The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
THE MEIJI RESTORATION^375 tight family structure, by their work ethic and self-discipline, by their sense of national identity a ...
(^376) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS only recently come through a difficult unification. Also Germany, like Japan, had start ...
THE MEIJI RESTORATION^377 did. In September 1871, the new Japan negotiated a treaty with China. The treaty did not accord Japan ...
(^378) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS able to a Paris wedding than to everyday business in Tokyo; wore ab surd top hats on c ...
THE MEIJI RESTORATION^379 that were generations behind European technology;* coal mines whose tortuous seams and hand-drawn bask ...
(^380) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS some 62 percent of yarn consumed in Japan came from abroad; by 1902, just about nothing ...
THE MEIJI RESTORATION^381 a teacher at Kobu University, an engineering school founded in 1877 and later merged into Tokyo Univer ...
(^382) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS exploitation. I use this last word, not in the Marxist sense of paying labor less than ...
THE MEIJI RESTORATION^383 historians have a library of reports and testimony to work with. Was England as bad as these records s ...
(^384) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Keian edict of 1649 forbade peasants to eat the rice they grew, order ing them to make ...
THE MEIJI RESTORATION^385 sisters-in-law would send the shuttles flying from early morning, before light, to midnight, day in, d ...
(^38 6) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS with a tile roof this time. After all, what is more important than a house? "In this ...
THE MEIJI RESTORATION^387 thing to her granddaughter-in-law the weaver (whom else to talk to?): "Did you hear what he said? It m ...
(^388) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS saw Uichi's wife, moaning and whimpering in distress, they offered nei ther company no ...
THE MEIJI RESTORATION^389 traditional sticky rice that Japanese are said to prefer. But just as other nations seem to like these ...
(^390) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS punishment and humiliation before resuming work. Others made good their escape but came ...
THE MEIJI RESTORATION 391 better and they were free. Japan, like other advanced industrial coun tries, eventually solved the pr ...
History Gone Wrong? Arab male pride is very strong, and also very fragile. —JAN GOODMAN, Price of Honor N o one can understand t ...
HISTORY GONE WRONG? 393 the thousand years from the fall of the western Roman empire (tradi tionally dated 476) to the overseas ...
(^394) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS his defeat was a setback for humanity. So when, beginning in the eleventh century in Sp ...
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