The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
HISTORY GONE WRONG? 415 These thugs see themselves as entitled, first as men, then as soldiers in the cause. The most striking a ...
(^416) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Such pseudo-scholarship tends to stereotype in time and space. "Orientals"—the very de ...
HISTORY GONE WRONG? 417 orientalist critique boils down to a lawyer's brief for the defense. Lawyers are paid to do that kind of ...
(^418) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS exception in Orientalism for a handful of Western scholars—pro- Palestinian, pro-Arab, ...
HISTORY GONE WRONG? 419 prosperity and greatness, gave women much more influence than a simplistic view of etiquette would lead ...
(^420) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS the executive branch. Again, Japan is not very different from other countries. What has ...
HISTORY GONE WRONG? 421 Arab house some years earlier, the women prepared the meal, but did not serve or even appear; the host r ...
25. Empire and After E uropean overseas empire began in the fifteenth century with the Atiantic islands (Canaries, Madeiras) and ...
EMPIRE AND AFTER^423 tus, power, and wealth, "empire" and "imperialism" have been (once were) proud words. Thus the last gasp of ...
(^424) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS conquered. (The tests are intermarriage, language, and personal names.)* Thus the Norma ...
EMPIRE AND AFTER^425 monopoly visited on non-European peoples is wrong. Yet that is what most people think of as imperialism. To ...
(^426) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS The Dutch and English sought trade, although commerce often led to intervention in loca ...
EMPIRE AND AFTER^427 often resented the traders as crass and rude, greedy and importunate. Too bad. Businessmen were only too re ...
(^428) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS about 1500 to 1800: the American dominions of Spain, the English and French holdings in ...
EMPIRE AND AFTER^429 Subsequent discoveries were happy surprises and sometimes so changed the incentives as to provoke new fight ...
430 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS ready-made market to get its industry going and maintain it, and to supply the inhabitants ...
EMPIRE AND AFTER^431 public works concessions, loan contracts, favorable market arrange ments. It is no accident that much of t ...
(^432) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS So, although the colonialists often left behind an infrastructure of roads, ports, rail ...
EMPIRE AND AFTER^433 new guises. The old colonial areas were only nominally free, they said, still bound to exploiters by invisi ...
434 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS cause the colonial power did not see the payoff to improvement. Still others were too poor ...
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