The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
EASTWARD HO! 95 domiciled in yards next to their work. Since the shipwrights and their apprentices were generally illiterate, le ...
96 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS So, after some decades of tugging and hauling, of alternating cele bration and commemorati ...
EASTWARD HO! 97 ceeded returns. These voyages reeked of extravagance. Whereas the first profits (the first whiff of pepper) and ...
(^98) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS mists, not so much because one can ever know the answers but for their heuristic value. ...
From Discoveries to Empire he news of Columbus's find spread fast thanks to the power of the X printing press.* Nothing speaks s ...
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FROM DISCOVERIES TO EMPIRE^101 appointment turned into attraction, for it meant that the treasure was still to be found. Columbu ...
(^102) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS their folly: Adam Smith describes this "sacred thirst" as "perhaps the most disadvantag ...
FROM DISCOVERIES TO EMPIRE^103 So with the Aztecs, alias the Mexica. They were a small group, a rough nomadic people come into t ...
(^104) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS tered and sprinkled on the idols, their bodies rolled down the steps and butchered to f ...
FROM DISCOVERIES TO EMPIRE^105 war games and jousts designed to produce prisoners for sacrifice before the hidden eyes of their ...
(^106) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS whether to think them gods or men. Mexican legend had it that the great god Quetzlcoati ...
FROM DISCOVERIES TO EMPIRE^107 invisible carriers of death to a population never exposed to these dis eases. They had already d ...
(^108) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS pursued the rest, spearing them at will, targeting those with fancy clothes, presumably ...
FROM DISCOVERIES TO EMPIRE^109 tenacity reflected in part the lesser effect of European diseases on the Peruvian population. The ...
(^110) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS The Inca empire was the biggest ever established in the New World. It stretched from wh ...
FROM DISCOVERIES TO EMPIRE^111 with the farthest reaches of the kingdom and impose his absolute, uniform rule over a highly dive ...
(^112) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS order and harmony. The Indians seem to have been patient and obedient, but recourse to ...
Bittersweet Isles O nce the Spanish conquistadors found the mainland empires with their treasures and people, they lost interest ...
(^114) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS The Spanish posted small garrisons and maintained naval stations to protect the treasur ...
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