The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
THE INVENTION OF INVENTION 55 thinks of the adoption of paper; or the introduction and diffusion of new crops such as coffee and ...
(^56) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS feet on the techniques of production. Only Galilean-Newtonian science was missing; but i ...
THE INVENTION OF INVENTION 57 ... if one understands by totalitarianism the complete hold of the State and its executive organs ...
(^58) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS were years of heresies in the Church, of popular initiatives that, we can see now, antic ...
THE INVENTION OF INVENTION^59 to what replaced them, but no one was listening to pagan nature wor shippers in Christian Europe. ...
The Great Opening The greatest thing since the creation of the world, except for the incarnation and death of Him who created it ...
THE GREAT OPENING^61 On the contrary. Columbus was now portrayed as a villain; the Eu ropeans as invaders; the native inhabitan ...
(^62) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS not have a new Columbus stamp, but the U.S. Post Office, swift-to- stroke and politicall ...
THE GREAT OPENING^63 ical remains, that the coming of the white man and his fellow-traveling pathogens (smallpox, influenza, etc ...
64 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS There are other, finer sentiments: the altruistic impulse, ideals of soli darity, the gold ...
THE GREAT OPENING^65 cenaries short on loyalty to the rulers who engaged them. Against these stood Christian barons and bullies, ...
(^66) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Yet all of that left energy for further campaigning and adventure. De mobilization does ...
THE GREAT OPENING 67 traders. Could a way be found to bypass these infidel middlemen, one might grow rich in the service of God. ...
68 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS Tome, in the Gulf of Guinea, was not opened to settiement until the 1490s.) These tiny isla ...
THE GREAT OPENING^69 But this regime could not easily be installed in Christian Europe, where it would have entailed a reversion ...
(^70) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS chant shippers. Meanwhile the Portuguese crown took a third or more of the gross in the ...
THE GREAT OPENING 71 white man was in large part the replacement of people by cattle, fol lowed by a repeopling with black slav ...
72 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS to have died and been thrown overboard, to float like planks on the waves. African slaves w ...
THE GREAT OPENING^73 Silver traded for gold at 10 to 1 in Tunis in the first half of the fourteenth century, but that same gold ...
(^74) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS months in Egypt, and the visit was remembered for centuries thereafter. He gave 50,000 d ...
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