The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
HISTORY GONE WRONG? 395 a monopoly of violence, restrained only by the occasional, random, even whimsical wisdom of the ruler. T ...
(^396) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS a docile people thousands of times more numerous. Except for the Sepoy rebellion (1857- ...
HISTORY GONE WRONG? 397 How could a living corpse, rotting in all its parts, take so long to ex- pire? The Ottoman empire began ...
(^398) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS the fateful events of all time, one that changed history in ways that are still being w ...
HISTORY GONE WRONG? 399 dilate around it. The succession, meanwhile, is defined by social and political convention. In Muslim la ...
400 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS patriotic volunteers were not to be found. More and more, the state depended on slave sold ...
HISTORY GONE WRONG? 401 rather than inventors. They understood the value of cannon and espe cially of siege artillery, but they ...
(^402) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS press, which was seen as a potential instrument of sacrilege and heresy. Nothing did mo ...
HISTORY GONE WRONG? 403 and fleeing Hebrews before them.* Turkish government had changed the country litde, but the invasion in ...
(^404) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS In 1822, Jumel transplanted a bush he had found on the He Bourbon (later renamed Réunio ...
HISTORY GONE WRONG? 405 ern industrial economy—by command from above.^14 The extent of Muhammad Ali's success and the reasons fo ...
(^406) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS drive wheels. So he began with animal power—1,000 oxen to drive 250,000 cotton spindles ...
HISTORY GONE WRONG? 407 cratic complications within the mills (antipilferage measures) made even lubrication a monumental task. ...
(^408) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS enlightened ruler (despot), a wise man, a savior sent to waken Egypt land from its long ...
HISTORY GONE WRONG? 409 Like the Spain of yesteryear, they've purchased the skills and services of others rather than learned to ...
(^410) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Middle East are either rich or poor depending on whether they have oil and have few or ...
HISTORY GONE WRONG? 411 high, and much higher for women than for men. That alone speaks of a society that accords women an infer ...
(^412) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS on the male-female divider. Halim Barakat, Arab sociologist and nov elist, while ackno ...
HISTORY GONE WRONG? 413 cannot rear young people in such wise that half of them think them selves superior by biology, without ...
(^414) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS pointing to Muslim economic, spiritual, and intellectual openness in an earlier golden ...
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