The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
THE GREAT OPENING 75 initially enraptured.^18 "They go naked as the day they were born," he wrote, "the women as well as the men ...
(^76) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS the European-Amerindian encounter in black and white, with all the wickedness on one sid ...
THE GREAT OPENING 77 promote ends over means and extinguish sentiments of decency and humanity. To which Tzvetan Todorov would a ...
78 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS subsequent issues of power and the politics of imperialism. For many Latin American histori ...
Eastward Ho! Of all the great Events that have happened in the World of late Ages, those which concern the Voyages and Discoveri ...
OCEAN CURRENTS AROUND THE WORLD These currents, along with prevailing winds, dictated shipping routes in the Age of Sail. ...
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PREVAILING WINDS AROUND THE WORLD, JANUARY PATTERN Calms and doldrums are found where countervailing winds meet. To be avoided. ...
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PREVAILING WINDS, JUNE PATTERN ...
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(^86) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS against southing ships, and the coasdine is dreary-arid. Once one gets past the Cape Ver ...
EASTWARD HO! 87 high seas. Some of it was the work of private shippers and seamen, who saw riches at the end of their bowsprit. ...
(^88) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS ship and its gold. King John was not pleased: "I have no desire to see a messenger of mi ...
EASTWARD HO! 89 promised huge profits. A hundredweight of pepper could be had in Calicut for three ducats. After passing through ...
THE AGE OF DISCOVERY: ROUTES OF MAJOR VOYAGES Note the way wind and current dictated the choice of route. Better to sail long an ...
Columbus first voyage Dias Da Gama Cabrai ...
(^92) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS tionalized, as in the instructions (Regimento) to Diogo Lopes de Se- queira in 1508 for ...
EASTWARD HO! 93 Are there cities, towns, or villages of special importance? Are they fortified? How is the land inhabited? Mone ...
(^94) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS not available within his borders. In particular, the ships brought back exotic zoologica ...
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