The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)
BITTERSWEET ISLES^115 tially uninhabited—theirs for taking and making. Upwind and well to the east of the other Antilles, it was ...
(^116) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS ambushes and used poisoned arrows. Unlike the Aztecs, the Caribs tried to kill their ad ...
BITTERSWEET ISLES^117 thing by hand. The idea was to make work and keep the hands busy, because idleness invited trouble. In the ...
118 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS afraid to allow his cargo to leave their fetid quarters and come above deck—they might jum ...
BITTERSWEET ISLES^119 mother was then expected to work in the field with the baby on her back. The law stipulated fines for kill ...
(^120) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS torians have tried to calculate the gains from slaving and find it far from a bonanza. ...
BITTERSWEET ISLES^121 On the other hand, the increase in the size of the market made a dif ference. (We are not talking profit ...
(^122) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS World countries and their sympathizers want to enhance the bill of charges against the ...
BITTERSWEET ISLES^123 labor to the point of exhaustion. For a time Indians and blacks were used indifferendy in field work and t ...
(^124) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS out the pain and misery around them with a silk and lace curtain. Contrast the single-m ...
Empire in the East P ortugal is a small country of moderate fertility. In the fifteenth century its population numbered about 1 ...
126 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS its ability to build and arm oceangoing vessels, were limited. This was a lightweight goin ...
EMPIRE IN THE EAST^127 hands, nor trade with the natives except in the same manner, standing always upon our guard."^2 Did ever ...
TRADE ROUTES IN THE EASTERN SEAS This regional (country) trade flourished well before the Europeans arrived in the sixteenth cen ...
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130 THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS a far stronger Indian government marched in and took it over, with out provocation or pre ...
EMPIRE IN THE EAST-^131 lim world; ships from everywhere moving teak, sandalwood, and other fine woods; ivory and rhinoceros hor ...
(^132) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS was this game that even after the two Iberian kingdoms separated in 1640, the Dutch and ...
EMPIRE IN THE EAST 133 to hide the taste and odor of spoilage. Hence the paradox that the cuisine of warmer countries is typical ...
(^134) THE WEALTH AND POVERTY OF NATIONS meantime, the crypto-Jews, including Abraham Zacut and other astronomers, found life in ...
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